Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Donor nations: the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan. Recipients: Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Lacs, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, South Viet Nam, Thailand...
...line, Bickmore took some studies on the side from both Dale Carnegie and Harvard Business School. Since becoming chief executive three years ago, he has bought out Cream of Wheat and the James O. Welch candy company* of Cambridge, Mass., as well as biscuit bakers in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, England and France. A notebook in his uncluttered desk holds his secret expansion plans for the company. All Bickmore will say is that within the next five years he intends to spread more products abroad, push sales close to $800 million, and lift profits 50% above last year...
...United State Air Force and the Harvard College Observatory agreed on a joint project for a solar sweep-frequency observatory in the U.S. The Air Force supplied the funds and Harvard was in charge of the research. Dr. Alan Maxwell, a young New Zealand physicist who had been trained in radio astronomy at Britain's Jodrell Bank station, became the director of the project...
...loneliness. More childhood memoirs than one would wish end with rhetorical queries to the Infinite. The collection's showpiece is a long fable called Snowman, Snowman. It concerns a snowman who thinks long, long thoughts while slowly melting in the front yard of a middle-class New Zealand family. These scraps suggest not a dark night of the soul but a sun-filled afternoon, with curtains blowing drowsily at the window, a stack of clean paper on the desk, a typewriter at hand, and nothing...
...China is also wooing its yellow and brown brothers in the Asian Communist parties, with considerable success in Japan, Ceylon and, of all places, New Zealand. North Viet Nam's wispy leader, Ho Chi Minh, is ambiguous about his loyalties, but must reflect that Red China is next door while Russia is far away. Indonesia's Red chief, D. N. Aidit, walks a zigzag line, and Burma, typically, has two Communist factions-one for Mao, one for Khrushchev...