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Married. Peter Snell, 24, New Zealand's world record holder for the mile and half mile; and Sally Turner, 20, his longtime sweetheart; in Papakura...
Isolated examples of discrimination do crop up. A year ago when a hotel manager near Papakura refused to serve a beer to a Maori, he was not only soundly criticized in the nation's press but got a stiff reprimand from the hotel-chain owner, Sir Ernest Davis. Last week, caught between his near-fanatical devotion to rugby and what amounts to a national dishonor if Maori footballers are excluded, New Zealand's man-in-the-street was making his choice plain: no Maoris, no match...
Home to a tumultuous welcome in Papakura, New Zealand, Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mt. Everest, made all sorts of news. He announced plans to marry a New Zealand music student in September; obliged photographers by flopping his 6 ft. 3 in. into a symbolic white victory chair built on skis which admirers presented to him; and he told how he first heard of his knighthood. "We were strolling down a mountain pass about halfway to Katmandu," he said. "We had long beards and looked extremely disreputable-in fact, like I do in Papakura. A Sherpa came along with...
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