Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time since the competition started in 1851, America lost the America's Cup to a high-tech upstart from Australia. Four years later blustery Dennis Conner, losing skipper in the duel with Australia, regained the trophy in a rousing victory Down Under. But Conner offended losing New Zealand when he accused its crew of cheating by racing in a fiber-glass boat...
Senior Feroze Khan succeeded Clyvan and continued the task of promoting the sport on campus. The current co-captains, Atha and Shumya Das, encourage anyone interested in the club to join. Currently, most of the club is comprised of international students from Australia, Africa, Pakistan, India, England, New Zealand, and the West Indies...
...homeschooling certainly hasn't handicapped the Colfaxes' intellectual achievement. Grant is currently in New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship and plans to attend Harvard Medical School in the fall. A magna cum laude graduate in biology, Grant won a Hoopes Prize for his thesis...
Everything appeared normal on United Airlines Flight 811. En route from Honolulu to Auckland, New Zealand, the Boeing 747, carrying 336 passengers and a crew of 18, had climbed to 22,000 ft. over the Pacific. As the flight attendants were preparing to roll out the beverage carts, passengers in the forward section heard a hissing noise. Within seconds came a loud thump of bursting metal and a roar of cold air. "It was like a dream," said passenger Gary Garber later. "A section of the plane wasn't there any longer...
...Zealand schoolteacher Beverley Nisbet, summoning a remarkable presence of mind, unleashed her camera and snapped photos of her fellow passengers as they crouched and prepared for the worst. Remembers Roger White, who was ) seated in Row 18, not far from the business-class section: "The walls seemed to be popping in on everybody. I kind of got resigned to the fact that I was going to die. I put my head down and told my wife I loved her. She told me she loved me." Said Jack Kennedy: "I thought everything was going up pretty quickly, I tell...