Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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October is springtime below the Line, and last week Harewood Airport at Christchurch, New Zealand was jammed with U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft ready to take off for Antarctica. Some 600 officers and men, headed by Rear Admiral David Tyree, were waiting to make the 2,200-mile hop to the null main Antarctic base at McMurdo Sound. This is Operation Deepfreeze '61-the fanciest assault ever mounted against-the forbidding, frozen land on the earth's underside. Including ship and aircraft crews, its staff will total...
...turn arid, an Indus Basin Development Fund will construct a massive system of connecting canals, bringing water for the northern rivers to fill the empty southern river beds. Six foreign countries (the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and two newcomers to the foreign aid game-West Germany and New Zealand) will supply $640 million of the fund's eventual $1.07 billion cost. By opening 20 million acres to irrigation and providing a potential of 500,000 kw. of power, the Indus project (originally suggested by TVA's David Lilienthal) should raise the living standards of 40 million Pakistanis...
Departing Sydney for Calcutta, Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand's cliff-hanger extraordinary, labeled his upcoming nine-month expedition "the most important of its kind ever to go to the Himalayas." Its prime purpose: to conduct physiological tests atop the world's fifth-highest peak, Mount Makalu, which the party of 18 hopes to mount without oxygen tanks. But getting most of the headlines so far was an expedition sideline: Hillary's quest for the Abominable Snowman. Although he suspects that the abomination is just a snow job, Hillary is toting a special, hypodermic-firing blunderbuss with...
...Admiral Richard E. Byrd's expeditions in the 1930s, Antarctica soon aroused that old flag-planting urge among several nations. The 1957-58 International Geophysical Year brought a temporary thaw in Antarctic rivalries. Scientists from twelve na tions-the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Belgium, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, Chile-worked together in a broad and coordinated program of Antarctic research. In May 1958, President Eisenhower invited them all to Washington to discuss a continuing joint policy for Antarctica. This, he argued, "could have the additional advantage of preventing unnecessary and undesirable political rivalries in that...
Neph Analysis. The operational successors of Tiros I will probably revive a 19th century method of weather prediction called "neph analysis" (nephos-Greek for cloud). Weathermen in Antarctica will welcome satellite cloud pictures to tell them whether it is safe for a supply plane to start from New Zealand. The Indian Ocean, where few ships or airplanes pass, will be watched by neph analysis for juvenile typhoons...