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Back in his adopted Himalaya skyscrapers for a closer look at the evasive Abominable Snowman, New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mount Everest in 1953, decided to extend the expedition. Reason: having earlier discovered some strange pawprints at high altitudes in the snow, Sir Edmund was almost ready to give up the hunt when, according to a letter just received by the expedition's sponsor (Chicago's Field Enterprises Educational Corp.). he happened upon a bearlike skin that his Sherpa guides -who may be con men of the highest-altitude order-swore...
...farmer's word for the dusty, brown, bare countryside of northern India-a word that imperial British soldiers long ago adopted to describe the sand-drab color of their field uniforms. Last week, from the tea gardens of the Malabar Coast to the millet patches of the high Himalaya, Indians were discussing the government's new third five-year plan (1961-66), in which highest priority is assigned to agriculture...
When New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mount Everest, quests for the Abominable Snowman in the high Himalaya next winter, there is an outside chance that he will bump into his wife: Lady Hillary announced last week that she and a female friend will take a mountain stroll on their own this February, trek some 170 miles from Katmandu to Thyangboche over some rugged territory. Discussing her project as casually as if it were a Girl Scout hike, Louise Hillary said: "We intend to climb a ridge or two and have a look at the view...
...From the Himalaya shadows. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Student King...
...weakened France could take the heart out of the Western alliance. Deeper in Africa, the strivings for independence, however prepared the newly free might be, had taken on a decisive undertone that could no longer be ignored. Tension in the Middle East, in the Caribbean, along the Himalaya frontier of the free world, in the great spread of awakening Africans, all emphasized the fact that the affairs of the world are the affairs of the U.S., and that the issues of the U.S. political campaign of 1960 are the issues of the world...