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...third day, India's Aruna Asaf Ali charged China with blocking all efforts to settle the Himalayan war with India. Out of their seats bounced two diminutive Chinese delegates who legged it to the platform in slit skirts to demand time for rebuttal, their heated words duly translated by an interpreter. A Russian official frantically wrapped her hands around the microphone; British Chairman Dr. Joan Carritt vainly jangled a bell; pro-Soviet delegates added to the uproar by shouting that the Chinese should stand down...
...every goal. All told, five Americans had reached Mount Everest's lofty summit. For the first time, Everest's "impassable" West Ridge had been conquered. When Hornbein and Unsoeld finished their return trip down the South Col, they completed the first transverse crossing in the history of Himalayan climbing. Only Sally Dyhrenfurth took it all calmly. "What," she asked her husband, "are you going to do for an encore...
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...
...waist by a gold belt, from which hung a small dagger. To ward off evil spirits, Hope pressed her hand into a piece of dough. A pair of holy men conducted her to the chapel, where she was greeted by a fanfare of trumpeting, 10-ft.-long Himalayan horns, braying conch shells, and booming bass drums. Outside the chapel door was the only distinctively American touch in the $60,000 Buddhist rite-a mat on which was written in English, "Good Luck...
...geography involved than by the fact that Pakistan Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto could travel to Peking and negotiate a separate deal on a chunk of Kashmir with the Communist enemy, while the talks with India were still going on, and while Chinese troops still menaced India's Himalayan frontier. It just might be that Pakistan's Bhutto was using the Chinese agreement as a club to scare India's government into making compromises on Kashmir. In any case, he said, "we are under no obligation to explain these matters to anyone . . . We have to pursue...