Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard. Their names and the countries in which they will study are: Phillip C. V. Bankwitz 3G, France, Roger Hornstein 1G, France, Donald E. Paradis 3L, England, Daniel R. Pinkham, Jr. '44, France, Stephen M. Schwebel '50, France, Alvin Whitley 3G, England, and Harrison M. Wright '50, New Zealand...
Another conference on Southeast Asia will convene this week in the Philippine mountain resort of Baguio. At the invitation of Carlos Romulo, newly appointed Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs, delegates from the Philippines, Korea, India, Pakistan, Siam, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand will discuss economic and cultural cooperation and a vague proposal for a Southeast Asian union. According to Host Romulo, the conference would be "nonCommunist" rather than "anti-Communist," which was another way of saying that in all likelihood it would produce doubletalk instead of concrete action. Romulo himself last week gave a preview of the doubletalk. Said...
...fact, the Endeavour's cruise was a matter of empire. The French had just lost Canada and, with an urge to make up for it somehow, were searching for the great new continent that was still believed to lie in the South Pacific between New Zealand and South America. If there was such a continent, the British Admiralty wanted to find it first. So Captain Cook searched the South Pacific looking for the continent that wasn't there...
Many an Anzac airman suspected that Squadron Leader Jimmy Duncan, special disciplinary officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, had X-ray eyes. "The Bull" could spot a loose tunic button, they swore, through three city blocks of buildings and traffic. Some suspected that he had seven-league boots as well. One unlucky trainload of troops who gave Jimmy the raspberry as their train pulled out of Wellington awoke next morning to find him waiting in Auckland (more than 300 miles away) to chew them out. He had grabbed a plane and flown up for the privilege...
Last week the pilots could listen to their motors all they liked. There was no sound to break the stillness of the clear New Zealand air but the occasional backfire of a twin-engined bomber, the clap of autumn thunder or the scream of a siren. Jimmy Duncan, 59, had retired. There was no truth whatever, he roared in parting, in the story that he had been offered a job as a one-man public-address system. "Perhaps," said Jimmy, reflectively, "I'll raise cabbages...