Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old bank vice president who can't get within 2 ft. of the world's record. The best two-milers include an Arizona sci ence teacher and a Massachusetts busi nessman. And the 4-min. 15-sec. mile is no exaggeration: that is what New Zealand's John Davies clocked when he won the event at the Philadelphia In quirer Games...
...study, New Zealand's Father O'Neill suggests that while celibacy should not be abandoned, priests unable to live up to the vow might be allowed to marry and then continue with their duties. Thanks to pressure from missionary bishops, the council did clear the way toward the ordination of married deacons, who could distribute Communion and give instruction but not hear confessions or celebrate Mass. Some theologians predict that eventually the church will let priests marry or not as they wish, requiring celibacy only for those with a vocation to a religious order...
...harvestIng such traditional "meat" fish as cod, halibut, salmon and the smaller tunas, commercial fishermen from Japan, Scandinavia and Russia have now invaded the world's best sport-fishing areas with superefficient methods that devastate the population of rare game fish. In the once renowned waters off New Zealand's Mayor Island, where 900 big fish-swordfish, striped and black marlin -were boated in 1949, not a single billfish of any size was caught in 1964. Off Acapulco, Mexico, headquarters of one of the world's biggest (300 boats) sport-fishing fleets, commercials have zeroed...
...feeling about islands is not normal," confesses Author Russell, who was born on an island-New Zealand's South Island-and who, like sea birds feels uncomfortable nesting anywhere but on rock castles moated by the deeps One summer, his spirit choked by 15 years of urban life as a journalist in Manhattan, Russell headed north on the scent of some wave-swept map specks off Newfoundland's and Nov Scotia's stern coasts. Among them were Hay Island, periodically exposed to it roots by the incredible fall of the Fundy tide, and Funk Island, on whose...
...coast, the "Screaming Eagles" of the 101st Airborne Brigade began operating as a mobile strike force. In the guerrilla-infested jungles around Saigon prowled the 1st Infantry Division ("Big Red One"), the 173rd Airborne, a 1,200-man battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, a 250-man New Zealand artillery unit...