Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ghana's Nkrumah canceled a proposed exchange of visits between Ghanians and South Africans. Malaya's Tengku Abdul Rahman and several other ministers were only persuaded at the last moment from putting out a dissenting communique of their own. New Zealand's Walter Nash made his feelings clear by publicly stating: "There are no inherently superior people-none." At the moment, few Commonwealth Prime Ministers want to throw South Africa out of the club. The member nations seem ready to wait a year or 18 months until their next meeting in the hope that mounting world pressures...
...family, $17.50 for a single person. Both the opposition Liberals and the province's 1,000 doctors are against the Douglas scheme, challenging its practicality. The province already has cradle-to-grave security that matches anything in such better-known socialist Edens as Sweden, Uruguay and New Zealand...
...choppy waters of the Persian Gulf, others perched on a crablike platform and sent a snag-toothed bit boring into the ocean bed. Around the world, hundreds of men labored just as sweatily in 35 other countries - from the pampas of Argentina to the back hills of New Zealand - to probe the earth in an eager quest for the substance that makes the world's wheels go round...
...Niger, the men in New Zealand's back hills are all employees of a single company, Royal Dutch/Shell, the world's second biggest oil company - after Standard Oil (New Jersey) - and by far the most international in scope, organization and spirit. Controlled in partnership by two holding companies, one Dutch (Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.) and one British (Shell Transport & Trading Co., Ltd.), Royal Dutch/Shell is a two-headed creature that owns or partially owns 500 worldwide subsidiaries. Known simply as "Shell" to the public and to the oil industry as "the Group," it produces 14% of the free...
...British in heart, soul and mind, and in the Suez crisis, after failing to persuade Nasser to accept international control of the canal, Menzies lined Australia behind Sir Anthony Eden's invasion. He did so against the will of former Australian Foreign Minister Richard Casey,-and only New Zealand in the rest of the Commonwealth sided with Britain...