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Born. To Sir Edmund Hillary, 35, New Zealand beekeeper knighted for his successful 1953 conquest (with Tenzing, the Sherpa guide) of Mt. Everest, and Lady Louise Hillary, 24: their first child, a son; in Auckland, New Zealand. Name: Edmund. Weight...
...fastened to his wing a note enclosing 20 francs for a friend on nearby Katiu. True to his proud tradition, the frigate took off, but in the wrong direction. Days later, just as the natives were coming out of church, he swooped into a three-point landing on New Zealand's Rakahanga island, a full 1,000 miles away. A government clerk spotted the note clipped to the wing, and relieved the errant frigate of his burden. It took a telegram, many more days, a set of stamps, two airplane trips, a boat trip and the combined efforts...
Long Arm. In Invercargill, New Zealand, Kenneth Blackmore, 19, escaped from prison, fled 140 miles to Dunedin, took refuge in a tree, discovered too late that he was in the backyard of Sergeant Alex McRae, the police officer who had been detailed to look...
...Brooklyn youths arrested last August, among other things, for beating an old man to death in a park-as Lindner puts it, "a devil's rosary of crimes ranging from rape to murder, and all stamped with an unbelievable degree of sadism." Another of his examples: the New Zealand girl. Pauline Parker, 16, who savagely murdered her mother, assisted by a girl friend, Juliet Hulme, 15. Both, says Lindner, quoting from news reports, "exulted over their crime" and "showed no reasonable emotional appreciation of their situation...
...says, were all inward storms. "Lust was in their creations, also vast and devouring if nameless hungers, as well as cosmic yearnings, strange thirsts, occult sensations, murderous rages, vengeful fantasies and imaginings that catalogue all of sin and crime. But, unlike the sorry six from Brooklyn and New Zealand, in them these impulses were contained within the skin's envelope, merely felt and suffered in the private agony of a tormenting preadulthood...