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THERE were other TIME correspondents traveling to faraway places for stories in this issue. From New Delhi, James Shepherd made his way to Sikkim's remote capital of Gangtok to see the charming wedding of the Crown Prince to his American bride...
Guests in top hats and cutaways mingled with others in fur-flapped caps and knee-length yakskin boots last week outside the tiny Buddhist chapel in Sikkim's dollhouse Himalayan capital of Gangtok. Wedding parcels from Tiffany's were piled side by side with bundled gifts of rank-smelling tiger and leopard skins. Over 28,146-ft. Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain and Sikkim's "protecting deity," hung a blue haze. It was an "auspicious sign," said Gangtok astrologers, for the wedding of a quiet, blue-eyed New York girl, Hope Cooke...
...ceremony set off a four-day celebration in Gangtok, whose normal population of 12,000 swelled to 15,000 for the event. Mountain tribesmen in blue pajamalike clothes danced in the streets. Mixing happily with the celebrators, Hope settled into her new role with aplomb. When a pigtailed Sikkimese girl asked for her autograph, the new crown princess signed without a moment's hesitation: "Hope Namgyal...
...first U.S. ambassador ever to visit the Indian protectorate of Sikkim, Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith decided to dress native. Though most good-sized Sikkimese stand somewhere south of his chest, Galbraith (6 ft. 8 in.) surprisingly found a spotted mandarin coat from a bazaar in the capital, Gangtok, that neatly draped his gangling frame. Looking like an unhappy giraffe in his new outfit, Galbraith attended a dinner given by the Maharaja of Sikkim. Later, the younger members of the ambassador's party twisted until 3 a.m. after getting lessons from the Maharaja's teenage granddaughter, Princess...
Kalimpong heard that the Dalai Lama is safe, though his whereabouts remained a mystery. Dispatches from Gangtok said some Tibetans are en route to New Delhi to plead with Prime Minister Nehru for active intervention. High Chinese Nationalist officials said both sides had ordered up reinforcements in this gravest outbreak of hostilities since Red Chna took over Tibet eight years...