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Winter winds whistle through Auckland, New Zealand at this time of the year, but even New Zealand's chilly days are not enough to winterkill the dreams of freedom that bloom eternally in the hearts of men and monkeys. Three weeks ago, despite the weather, six bonnet monkeys decided to give up the comforts of a warm cage in the Auckland Zoo and take up residence in a pine grove just down West View Road. Zoo authorities tried in vain to lure them back, but the free souls in the pine trees only mocked their efforts...
...time most of the children of Auckland took up the monkeys' cause, and the local fruit dealer did a land-office business as moppets flocked around to buy bananas. Mingling freely with all who came offering food and genuine friendship, the monkeys would eat their bananas with relish, and then, with unerring aim and discernment, shy their skins at whatever furtive zoo keeper chanced to be lurking near by. At last, frustrated, the zoo men went to a base stratagem: they left a plate of rum-soaked food standing near, to tempt the refugees. One poor, pusillanimous monkey fell...
Whitfield. now 30, plans to keep right on running. Halberg, 20, has other plans. "I've got to put my career first," he says. "As soon as track interferes with my career, I'll drop track." Now in his second year at Auckland's Teachers' Training College, Halberg wants to be a teacher "in a primary school, where I can work with youngsters...
...Chapman & Scott, Stone & Webster are building air bases in France and Spain, powerhouses in Greece, a dam in Japan, electric plants in Bombay, Brazil and the Dominican Republic, oil refineries in England, Italy, and Australia, paper mills for Israel, roads through the Belgian Congo, and a new harbor at Auckland...
...growing list of potential four-minute milers (Luxembourg's Josef Barthel, Australia's John Landy, the U.S.'s Wes Santee, England's Roger Bannister, Germany's Werner Lueg) when Murray Hallberg, a 20-year-old student, ran the distance in 4:04.4 in Auckland...