Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theirs. Five sets of such athletes, both blessed and cursed with each other's achievements, are profiled in the following pages. Four are expected to bring the Olympics moments of high drama. But barring a surprise reversal by Tanzania, the long-awaited meeting of Filbert Bayi and New Zealand's John Walker has been forced offstage by politics. For the moment, at least, Bayi v. Walker seems more symbolic of the '76 Olympics than all the rest...
That was a natural assignment for Cook, since he was the first to chart large areas of the Pacific (among his discoveries: New Zealand, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Easter Island). Trouble was that the Navy had retired Cook from sea duty last year and made him a captain of the Greenwich Hospital for pensioned sailors, a sinecure that pays ?230 a year, as well as a free suite of rooms, firewood and candles. But Cook, still only 47, was restless. To a friend he confided: "A few months ago, the whole southern hemisphere was hardly big enough...
When we boarded a spanking new Garuda Indonesian Airways jet, the diplomats were uncomfortably outnumbered by some 40 newsmen. Only India and Iran sent their ambassadors; Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, New Zealand and Nigeria sent lower-level dignitaries. The U.S. and the Soviet Union declined, as did the Common Market countries, Australia, and even such close
...achieving, Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Norman Carlson decided in 1972 that Butner, then in the planning stage, would be designed for new rehabilitation techniques. After bitter criticism scuttled early ideas of using transactional analysis and behavior modification, Carlson turned to the theories of Norval Morris, 52, a New Zealand-born criminal-law professor (and now dean) at the University of Chicago Law School...
...eclectic sentences; the thoughts come to him in bursts of various length, each one striving for profundity and literary value. This sometimes produces streams of semi-meaningless maxims (of Rubin, "He is Jimmy Connors deciding to be Chrissie Evert, as solemn as an oil rig;" of Canada, "a New Zealand on rubber wheels." Leonard must have some idea what these things mean). It also sometimes produces really good and perceptive lines (writers "will descend into pulpdom, where the libidinal cathexes are so simpleminded it seems that anyone with a grudge against women has a chance to make money.") Maybe Leonard...