Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to sit back at their old pace and say, 'Wow, this fool is going to drop dead on the third lap.' " Trouble was, Bayi never did. He began to make a habit of leaving astonished stars behind him. Last year at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, Bayi atomized Jim Ryun's seven-year-old 1,500-meter world record with a time of 3:32.2-equivalent to a 3:49.2 mile. This winter, in his debut on the U.S. indoor circuit, he has kept up the pressure. Although the smaller indoor ovals have forced...
...diners. Son of a London hotelkeeper, he started helping in the kitchen at six, studied hotel management in England, ran a 15th century coaching inn with his actress-wife Treena (now his producer), then moved Down Under, where he served as chief catering adviser for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He later began extolling eating on radio and TV, first in Australia and then in Canada. He now teaches at Cornell University's renowned school of hotel administration...
Died. Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, 82, commander of the Royal Air Force fighter group that fought off the German blitz on London in the summer of 1940; in Auckland, New Zealand. After the Battle of Britain, Park successfully defended Malta, then moved on to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where he commanded the Allied air forces...
...accept what were euphemistically called "deferred payments" to finance the purchases. Now the foreign trade deficit has leaped forward to an estimated $750 million for 1974; this has forced the Chinese to postpone the receipt of goods that they had agreed to buy from Japan, Australia, New Zealand...
Much of that growing demand in both industrial and developing countries has been satisfied for the past quarter-century by surpluses harvested in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina and the U.S. Indeed, America "is the principal and residual supplier of grain to the world," explains Willard Cochrane, a University of Minnesota agricultural economist. "It is the country to which all countries come when they are short." This year, despite the recent restrictions on sales abroad, the U.S. will probably export about 41% of its crop-at least 82 million tons of wheat, soybeans, corn and sorghum, valued at about...