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...birds and sea-life conservation; in Stony Brook, Long Island. In 1912 Murphy shipped aboard an Antarctic whaler as assistant navigator, and brought back bird, plant and fish specimens never before seen in the U.S. Among the discoveries of his 61-year career were the skeleton of the New Zealand moa, a flightless bird of centuries ago, and the cahow, a sea bird believed to have been extinct since the 17th century. As bird curator at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, he sailed on more than a dozen ocean expeditions, wrote nearly 600 articles and ten books...
...Micronesia that includes scuba diving in the giant Truk Lagoon, which is littered with the hulks of Japanese warships sunk in World War II. Other groups will visit the headwaters of the Amazon, the Ruwenzori (Mountains of the Moon) Range between Uganda and the Republic of Zaire, the New Zealand and New Guinea highlands and Australia's Great Barrier Reef...
...final race at Munich, New Zealand took the gold but it was the United States which edged out East Germany for second place. One year before Americans had suffered a humiliating defeat at the Internationals in Copenhagen, losing by nearly 30 seconds to New Zealand and West Germany. In only three months Parker had accomplished the seemingly impossible task of re-establishing the United States as a world crew power...
...supported the concept of a neutralized zone in Southeast Asia; he announced he would petition the International Court of Justice in an attempt to stop French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. (A number of similar steps were taken by Fellow Laborite Norman Kirk, who won power in New Zealand just a week before Whitlam's victory...
...thus continue to pursue an international tradition that began 32 years ago. From the sale of our first overseas edition in 1941, our circulation has grown to 490,000 in Canada, 180,000 in Asia, 125,000 in Australia, 115,000 in Latin America, and 40,000 in New Zealand. In the area that will receive TIME Europe, our circulation is now 430,000-2½ times that of any other international newsmagazine. For those readers, the new edition begins this week...