Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bailey had their breakfast interrupted by sperm whale, which rammed their twin-keel sloop Auralyn about 250 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands. The boat suffered a fatal portside hole below the waterline. Within an hour, the couple-who had been on their way from native England to New Zealand-embarked on a spectacular survival adventure in a round, covered rubber raft roped to a nine-foot dinghy. The publisher claims that the Baileys set a record-117 days*-for time adrift following a shipwreck. Though each lost about 40 pounds, suffered vitamin deficiencies and the raft...
Cheap and Ample. Heat from the earth also powers the generators of plants in Italy, New Zealand, Mexico and Japan. Because the energy is cheap, almost inexhaustible and relatively clean, it is also being developed by some 25 other countries, from Chile to Taiwan, Ethiopia to Indonesia...
...fact, the professionals on New Zealand's 119-year-old Brancepeth sheep station were impressed with Prince Charles' ability to fit in wherever he was during an official visit to meet the Kiwis. Although one dissent was recorded - a cry of "Go home, Pom" directed at his mother Queen Elizabeth after the whole family had got together to open the Commonwealth Games - the wel come accorded Charles by local teeny-boppers was more typical of the royals' reception. "Oh, you gorgeous thing!" cried one of the girls, who were out in force wherever he went...
Died. Sir Leslie Knox Munro, 72, astute diplomat and president of the United Nations General Assembly from 1957 to 1958; near Auckland, in his native New Zealand. After successive careers as teacher, lawyer, and newspaper editor, Munro was sent abroad in 1952 as ambassador to the U.S. and permanent representative to the United Nations. At various times during the next eleven years, he was president of the Security Council and the General Assembly, and also served as U.N. special representative on Hungary. A tall, imposing figure and excellent public speaker, Munro returned to New Zealand...
...royal yacht Britannia, lying at anchor in Auckland's Waitemata Harbor. The Prime Minister requested Her Majesty to dissolve Parliament and grant permission for a general election to be held Feb. 28. The Queen quickly cabled her ritual assent and returned to her royal tour of New Zealand...