Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...below zero and the air was thin enough to set the blood aboil as a New Zealand beekeeper -mountaineer named E. P. Hillary and an experienced Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norkey, struggled out of Camp 8 towards Everest's naked summit (29,002 ft.). Twice their climbing companions had been driven back by blizzards of ice, as had all men who tried before them. This time the mountain yielded...
...Crown so powerful, as the Empire that Disraeli proclaimed for Victoria, adding the jewel of India to her crown. Ireland and Burma have broken completely free. The countries formerly called dominions today prefer to be called by the less-subservient name "realm." Six of them (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Pakistan, Ceylon and South Africa) recognize Elizabeth as their own individual Queen as well as Queen of the Commonwealth, but three of these (Ceylon, Pakistan and South Africa) do not accept her as Defender of the Faith. The seventh realm, India, is a republic, and does not recognize Elizabeth as Queen...
...Zealand editor refused to believe, or print, details of the double head er. Mrs. Small, reported Invercargill's Southland Daily News, was "so hurt" by such disbelief that "she has sworn that if she has another hole in one she will say nothing about...
...students are: Stephen M. Cohen 2G of Conant Hall and Long Beach, N.Y., to study at Magdalen College, Oxford University; Edward I. Fry 3G of 401 Broadway, Cambridge, and Conroe, Tex., to study at Auckland University College, New Zealand; and Clarence W. Kerr of 15 Mt. Auburn St. and Glendale Calif., to study at Warburg Institute, London University...
...Frank Small, a New Zealand housewife, flubs around the fairways (handicap: 17) like any other golfer, but off the tees she is phenomenal. Last January, she was naturally elated when she scored the golfer's dream: a hole in one. Then, in ten weeks of play, she scored three more. Last week Mrs. Small was the sensation of the Antipodes. Playing on her home course at Invercargill, where there are four short holes (190, 135, 120 and 114 yds.), Mrs. Small sank Hole-in-One No. 5. Two days later, playing before a buzzing, unbelieving gallery, she smacked another...