Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIMES SOUTH PACIFIC 90,000 Australia 65,000 New Zealand...
...hand were delegates from pro-Chinese splinter parties in Western Europe and Peking-controlled Communist parties in North Viet Nam, North Korea, Indonesia, Japan and, of all places, New Zealand. Rumania and Cuba also sent delegates, indicating an interesting degree of independence from Moscow. None of the other, normally pro-Moscow parties attended. Peking meanwhile rejected another Moscow invitation for a meeting of the worldwide Communist movement...
...Australia's Ron Clarke, 27: a wind-whipped, three-mile race at Melbourne's Olympic Park, in the world-record time of 13 min. 7.6 sec.-clipping 2.4 sec. off the old mark held by New Zealand's Murray Halberg, who trailed Clarke through the tape by 150 yds. Peter Snell failed in his attempt to break his own world record for the mile (3 min. 54.1 sec.), still clocked 3 min. 57.6 sec.-the eleventh time the muscular New Zealander has cracked...
Volunteering for Progress. They will find many kindred spirits already at work. Norway, which claims that it was the first to copy President Kennedy's Peace Corps idea, has teams in Uganda. Similar programs have been initiated by Canada, Australia, Denmark, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. The French Volontaires du Progres has dispatched 95 farmers, carpenters, masons and doctors to France's former African colonies, and within a year expects to have 400 in action...
...than 4 sec. off his mile record by running the distance in 3 min. 50 sec. Last week, before 20,000 homefolks in Auckland, Snell gave it a gallant try. Ranged against him were Czechoslovakia's Josef Odlozil, silver-medal winner in the Olympic 1,500, and New Zealand's own John Davies, who won the bronze. With the possible exception of the U.S.'s Dyrol Burleson and Tom O'Hara, they were the class of the world...