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...children in an Auckland park last week were loudly disputing the identity of the great lady just passing in an automobile. One thought it might be Britain's Queen; the other firmly insisted that it was only Princess Margaret. With a smile, Elizabeth II, who had just arrived in New Zealand, leaned out of her slowly moving car, smiled and said...
Many other New Zealanders were pleased and surprised last week at the easy informality of the visitor who is not only Britain's Queen but their own. From the first moment of their welcome in Auckland harbor, when New Zealand yachtsmen by the hundreds braved a spanking breeze in sleek sloops and smart knockabouts to guide their liner Gothic to its berth, Elizabeth and her husband Philip radiated warmth and friendliness. They cut security measures to a minimum so that their subjects could see them close at hand. They went out of their way to arrange a call...
...Bridge Collapses. Then, with brutal suddenness, tragedy struck. The Wellington-Auckland Express, crammed with holidaymakers bound to see the Queen, was winding through the rugged mountains of North Island. High up in the hills (probably as the result of a minor volcanic eruption), a mountain lake burst its banks and sent a torrent of water rushing down the Wangaehu River. As the nine-car train crossed over the Wangaehu Bridge, underpinnings weakened by the surge of water buckled and sagged. Five cars dropped into the river, dragging the engine with them. A sixth teetered drunkenly on the edge...
Married. Sir Edmund Hillary, 34, co-conqueror of Mt. Everest; and Louise Mary Rose, 23, daughter of James H. Rose, president of New Zealand's Alpine Club; in the chapel of Diocesan High School at Auckland, New Zealand...
Team No. 2 was Hillary, the beekeeper from Auckland, New Zealand, and Tenzing, the sinewy Asian whom Colonel Hunt named "the greatest Sherpa of them all." They dragged themselves up to 27,900 ft. and there, on a rocky ledge, they spent a gale-swept night in a ragged tent...