Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think I'm going to take a few weeks off. Before my tour of New Zealand, you know. Diana Ross is at the Music Hall until the 14th of this month. At night. Nights work if you can get it. (See display...
...confessions lasted for 3½ hours as a Gamblers Anonymous chapter held its weekly meeting in a church basement in New York City. G.A., which now has 450 chapters across the U.S. and others in Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, was founded in 1957 when two addicted gamblers met by chance on a Los Angeles street. One of the gamblers was rushing to a card game, the other to a race track, and they started telling each other their problems. There are now 5,000 members of G.A. in the U.S., but they represent only a tiny percentage...
...atmosphere of caution and even retrenchment among the delegates from the industrial countries was understandable. The conference, lamented New Zealand's Prime Minister Robert Muldoon (who also serves as Finance Minister), was plainly "overshadowed by events." They included the political uncertainties in the U.S., Japan and West Germany, Britain's request for a $3.9 billion IMF loan to prop up its suffering pound sterling, and the growing probability of another price increase by the oil-exporting countries this winter...
Christchurch, New Zealand...
...problem is that despite its title, the book is much more an English gothic romance than a mystery. Gwenda, a dim young woman orphaned as a toddler and brought up by relatives in New Zealand, arrives back in Britain with her new husband, Giles. No sooner have they bought a nice house in the town of Dillmouth than Gwenda starts getting attacks of déjà vu and is clutched by a nameless dread while descending the stairs. It is soon clear to the reader, and eventually even to dim Gwenda, that she has been here before. Just...