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Among the visitors who flew in to Katmandu for King Mahendra's coronation last week (see above) were three sturdy men wearing swords, embroidered knee-length felt boots and striped wrap-around coats. They were from tiny (18,000 sq. mi.) Bhutan, a state perched in the Himalayas between India. Sikkim and Tibet. Although King Mahendra's close neighbors, they had traveled eight days-on foot and by pony to India, and then by plane to Nepal...
...20th century only 20 foreigners (not including Tibetans and Nepalese) have visited the big, rambling mountain fort at Punakha that serves as Bhutan's capital. So rugged are Bhutan's passes and so formidable its mountains that the Indian government's political agent makes the trip to Punakha only once every three years. In Bhutan there is not a single wheeled form of transport-no bullock cart, not even a bicycle. Everything in Bhutan is carried along bridle paths by mules. Bhutan has no electricity, no roads, no factories, no industries, no movies. And there...
Call Me Mister. What gives Bhutan real distinction is the fact that it is a country without an army-at the moment. The head of the government is youthful (27) Druk Gyalpo Jigme Wangchuk, whose name means Dragon King. Up to six months ago he ruled Bhutan (pop. 300,000) with the aid of a council of eight, 125 civil servants and a handful of palace guards. Among the Dragon King's closest advisers is bespectacled, English-speaking Jigme Dorji, 37, one of the delegation visiting Nepal. Although he is the King's brother...
...grandfather, Old Garnier is still dispensing snorting judgments upon our modern culture from his 18th-century mansion overlooking the Mississippi. One of the cleverest portions of the book describes his approaching senility. But it never approaches far enough for him to dispense with the necessary funds for Charlie's Bhutan scheme...
...Bubble Makers is much more than just a string of jokes. Resigned to the impossibility of reaching Bhutan, Charlie valiantly battles a Mississippi flood. Although this episode is almost a separate story in itself, Goodman's skill in developing the ludicrous drama of the situation compensates for any looseness in the plot. One realizes that the role of "flood-control expert" is for Charlie a substitute Bhutan. After working himself to the point of collapse on a levee, and nearly drowning in the process, he cheerfully announces: "It was the best time I've ever had." An element of charm...