Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nelson, New Zealand...
...over, 41 nations had divided up the costume jewelry. The U.S. did fine in sailing (two silver, three bronze) -but the 15 yachting medals were split eight different ways. Germany's balding Willi Holdorf, the oldest-looking 24-year-old in Tokyo, won the decathlon. New Zealand's incomparable Peter Snell, already the 800-meter champion, scored another awesome victory in the 1,500-meter run for what he termed "a nice double." Australia's Betty Cuthbert, who won three events at Melbourne in 1956, cranked her 26-year-old bones around the 400-meter track...
Peter Snell of New Zealand won the Olympic 1500-meter run in 3:38.1 this morning. America's Dyrol Burleson finished far back...
Also on the schedule were the 1500 meters (with America's Dyrol Burleson and New Zealand's Peter Snell the top entrants); the marathon (with Buddy Edelen and 10,000 meter winner Billy Mills entered for the U.S.); and three relay events (with the U.S. favored in all three...
...Evans, 70, a former Conservative M.P., has been busily spreading the risks: of total investments of $186 million, only $32 million is now in Northern Rhodesia. The wide-ranging portfolio includes, in addition to British companies, minority holdings in South African gold mines, Italian rubber manufacturing, Australian and New Zealand aluminum, Canada's Hudson's Bay Co., and several U.S. companies. Nevertheless, Chartered is bracing for some less than royal days ahead: it had expected to collect as much as $740 million in royalties on its monopoly mineral rights in Northern Rhodesia before they expired...