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...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 on one proud Maori chieftain who had been bypassed in the official schedule. They heard that the daughter of a provincial mayor was miffed at being left out of a reception, and saw to it that she was presented along with her father. By Christmas Eve, it seemed a foregone conclusion that the royal...
...only social distinctions upheld here are among the small native population, the Maoris, who landed on New Zealand in the fourteenth century, Maori families, it seems, pride themselves on which canoe their ancestors came over...
Died. Sir Peter Henry Buck, 71, lifelong friend of New Zealand's native Maoris, leading authority on the South Pacific's Polynesian culture; in Honolulu. Born to an Irish father who married a Maori tribal princess, Buck led the hard-fighting Maori troops in World War I. He wrote about Polynesians in Vikings of the Sunrise, helped the U.S. Navy resettle Polynesians who left Bikini to make way for the atom bomb tests...
After years of doctoring New Zealand's native Maoris,* Dr. George M. Smith is convinced that in a good many ways they are healthier in mind and body than the pakeha (white man). But, says he, "The diets of both Maori and pakeha are deteriorating. It's this modern craze for vegetables and fruit. The old idea was to feed the fruit and vegetables to the pig and then eat the pig. Physiologically, I am sure, this was correct...
...paintings by a non-convert named Chang Chao-ho, who has been commissioned to illustrate the Church's first full translation of the Bible into Chinese. To him, as to Korean Sculptor Kim Chong Young, the Madonna was an almond-eyed lady in a flowing kimono. A Maori artist decked her in a long grass skirt. African carvers made her a Negro, often barebreasted, sometimes put heavy coils of beads round her neck. Indo-Chinese versions of the Madonna were apt to resemble the Buddhist goddess of Mercy, Kuan...