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Until last year, Pakistan relied entirely on its U.S. alliance, confident that with Washington's backing it could safely resist any foe. But when U.S. and British military aid poured into India after the shattering reverses of the 1962 Himalayan war, Pakistan panicked. Ayub Khan and other top officials hold as an article of faith the belief that India will never use its rebuilt army against the Chinese, but may well employ it against archfoe Pakistan. Given this state of mind, it seemed only logical to break through the "encirclement" by reaching an understanding with...
...moun tain in the world and probably the world's most majestic when its snowy peaks are lit by the sunrise and borne aloft on lacy clouds. Sikkim contains every variety of climate and plant, from the subtropical through the temperate to the arctic. Snow leopards prowl the Himalayan slopes, pandas frolic in the forested gorges, clouds of butterflies hover over 3,000 different kinds of rhododendron and 400 types of orchid...
Boars on Horseback. Preserves are nothing new. New Hampshire's 25,000-acre Blue Mountain Forest Inc. was stocked in 1890 with deer, antelope, moose, elk, caribou, and Himalayan mountain goats. Railroad Magnate Austin Corbin chased boars there on horse back with javelins. Today, there are nearly 2,000 preserves in the U.S.-most of them open to anybody with a box of shells and a handful of greenbacks. Some are nothing more than dusty, played-out farms, stocked with a few pheasants and partridges. Others cater to the whims of an affluent society...
...things to know for any American girl hoping to become a princess is how to conduct a TV tour. Grace Kelly led the way in Monaco, and now the U.S.'s only other princess in a ruling family is doing it too. NBC is traveling to the Indian Himalayan protectorate of Sikkim to be shown up and down and all around by Hope Cooke, 22. The wife of the Maharajkumar (Crown Prince) hopes that the cameramen, currently crawling through New Delhi red tape, will hurry. She is shortly due to go into confinement to await the birth...
...months. One source of the Fellowship's financial prosperity is the success of its best-known commercial enterprise, the Mushroomburger restaurant on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard; it features, along with more or less authentic Indian dishes, some specialties that are exotic in name only, such as Himalayan snowballs (choco late sundaes topped with coconut...