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...course, is more sophisticated. At Wanganui, his strategy was to let Keino tire while setting the pace, save his own strength for a final kick to the tape. He did precisely the same thing in a rematch last week at Auckland: dogging Keino's footsteps for most of the race, he turned it on in the last 20 yds. to win by 3 ft. in 3 min. 54.1 sec.-tying the listed world record held by New Zealand's own Peter Snell. Twice was too much for Keino. "I am going back to Kenya and learn...
Last week the hormone's peculiar potency was illustrated in two places half the world apart. New Zealand Housewife Shirley Ann Lawson-a descendant of Bounty Mutineer Fletcher Christian-gave birth to four girls and a boy in Auckland's National Women's Hospital. Only two days later, Karin Ohlsen, 33-year-old wife of a Swedish teacher, delivered three boys and two girls in Falun General Hospital near Stockholm. Both mothers had been given injections of Gemzell's hormone, and both women reacted by producing at least five ova at the same time. By midweek...
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...Zealand is working harder to make matters easier for tourists than Sir Robert Kerridge, an Auckland businessman who bought his first movie theater at 17, now runs 130 of them in a $28 million complex that also includes shipping, real estate, photographic and finance companies. Kerridge is convinced that changes in the blue laws and bolder private enterprise could eventually raise New Zealand's tourist business to $300 million, is conducting a one-man campaign to make New Zealand realize this potential. Putting his money where his mouth is, he has bought 63-acre Pakatoa Island near Auckland...
...improve matters, hopes that it can raise tourist income from $27 million to $40 million within a few years. Next month, for the first time, jets will arrive from Sydney to land at Christchurch airport; by year's end the all-new Mangere airport will open outside Auckland and Air New Zealand will begin flights to North America...