Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kinsey of the penguin world is a New Zealand ornithologist named Lancelot Eric Richdale. For ten breeding seasons he watched colonies of yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes) on the coast of New Zealand's South Island. He made friends with the birds, attached identifying bands to their legs, and spied with a telescope upon their domestic affairs. In a new book, Sexual Behavior in Penguins (University of Kansas Press; $5), he tells what he learned about their lives and loves, "marriages" and "divorces...
With four other Middle East areas, Iran furnished three-fourths of the petroleum used in Western Europe. The A.I.O.C. supplied one quarter of Britain's oil requirements, including fuel for the Royal Navy; produced most of the oil imported by India, Pakistan, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. The U.S., though it produces three times as much as the Middle East, still imports Middle East oil, took 38 million barrels...
...Like New Zealand's Jack Lovelock, Miler Bannister looks more like a bookworn medical student (which he is) than a crack athlete. Bannister was a flop at cross-country, but the first time he tried the mile he turned in a creditable 4:30. A fortnight ago, as a warmup for his second U.S. showing (the first: as a 1949 member of the combined Oxford-Cambridge squad), he reeled off a whippet-fast three-quarters in 2:56.8, just missing (by .2 sec.) the world's fastest three-quarters, run by Sweden's Arne Andersson...
...base on Okinawa. ¶A U.S. guarantee that an armed attack on the Philippines would be looked upon as an armed attack upon the U.S. itself. ¶A U.S. agreement with Australia and New Zealand on defense...
Committees of newspapermen to nominate Fellows have been set up in Canada and New Zealand, and one will be formed in Australia. Like the Nieman Fellows, the Dominion newspapermen will come to Harvard on leave of absence from their papers for the year...