Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teach in small, informal seminars and high salaries ($14, average) have helped attract a strong and adventurous faculty. Support from Arizona citizens has been building as well; last year, Barry Goldwater donated his personal library to the college At Prescott, says President Nairn, who served as a New Zealand fighter pilot during World War II and holds a Ph. D. from Yale, "we are taking our past concepts of learning and giving them a new focus by which we can come close to the objective of that ancient Chinese aphorism: To have roots but to soar like an eagle...
...many another mammoth engineering project in the booming West. The Six Companies have long since separated, but Utah is still heavily involved in construction. It currently has a $102 million backlog of orders ranging from landfill work in San Francisco Bay to tunnel and powerhouse projects at New Zealand's Manapouri...
...protests were laced with a deep sense of disappointment that the Soviets had regressed to their bad old ways. "It turns the clock back to the darkest days of the cold war," said New Zealand's Prime Minister Keith...
...earth itself, natural steam is a familiar source of heat and power in countries as widely separated as Italy, Iceland and New Zealand. The renewed interest in the U.S. springs from a growing population's need for more electricity. In some areas, geothermal steam offers a cheap, ready-made alternative to coal, oil and nuclear fuels, and it leaves no pollutants in the air. At The Geysers, steam-driven turbines produce 58,000 kw. of electricity at a cost 23% below that of nearby conventional generating plants; in a few years, the area could be producing almost 20 times...
Died. Sir Walter Nash, 86, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and architect of the free world's first comprehensive social security system; of a heart attack; in Wellington. A stocky socialist, Nash used his post as Minister of Finance in New Zealand's long-running (1935-49) Labor government to push through a womb-to-tomb measure that provided everything from butter to baby bonuses; he became Prime Minister in 1957, but taxed his utopians so heavily that they ousted him from office three years later...