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...Zealand's Janet Frame, history is a hereditary malignancy that engulfs the present and dooms the future to madness, loneliness and death. Intensive Care, her eighth novel, continues her preoccupation with the subject. At one point, she even spells history "hiss-tree," linking it uncomfortably with Eden's serpent. "All dreams," she writes, "lead back to the nightmare garden...
...army pension was reduced from $61 to $29 a month. Nonetheless, Vorster has managed to loosen some of apartheid's tight restrictions. He adopted an "outward-looking" policy of establishing trade and diplomatic links with a few black states in southern Africa, and he agreed to allow New Zealand's rugby team, including some native Maoris, to compete in South Africa...
Hubbard's organization wasn't treated so well in other countries. England refused for a while to admit foreigners coming for upper-level courses. South Africa and Rhodesia refused to admit Hubbard. The state of Victoria, Australia, has outlawed Scientology altogether. Further investigations are pending in New Zealand and England...
...eight Frank Knox Memorial Fellowships-established in memory of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy-are not so open-ended. They provide for a year's study in a university in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada...
...took the lead coming down the stretch, he shouted to himself: "You've won it! You've won it!" Doubell professes to care little for glory or gold medals-or even that his Olympic time of 1 min. 44.3 sec. equaled the world record of New Zealand's Peter Snell. "From the moment I touched the tape," he says, "it was all downhill, anticlimax, God Save the Queen and all that. Who needs national anthems...