Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IVAN A. MITCHELL Dunedin, New Zealand...
Rather than a malted, Shirley is really a marm-a frustrated, febrile virgin teaching a grist of young Maoris in New Zealand, the homeland of Author Sylvia Ashton-Warner, on whose literary masterpiece, Spinster, the film is based-or, better, grounded. For all that was artless power, poetry and humor in the book is now arty, prosy and plodding...
...Decided to name liberal Democrat Anthony Akers, 46, a three-time loser of fights for the congressional seat in Manhattan's silk-stocking 17th District (incumbent: Republican John Lindsay), as Ambassador to New Zealand...
...Sharpville native massacre. Wary foreign investors are pulling their money out of South Africa. Some English-speaking South African whites are emigrating to more hospitable political climes. "I cannot bear to be here while Africans are not free," explained one emigrant, among 150 embarking for Australia and New Zealand last week, "and I could not bear to be here when they...
...built a special plant in Florida to use mostly disabled workers. Other Florida businessmen, spurred on by former Governor LeRoy Collins, have started a carbon copy of Abilities called Abilities, Inc. of Florida under Viscardi's active guidance. Similar projects are under way in Japan, Australia, India, New Zealand and Canada. Viscardi estimates that more than 5,000,000 Americans who have disabilities of some kind could work, but last year fewer than 500,000 got work, and about 300,000 are added to the work force every year. Says Viscardi: "When the world finally realizes there...