Word: himalayan
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...goes back on Oct. 1 as its $22,500-a-year boss. A herpetologist who once missed a TV show because a rattler bit him on the hand during rehearsal. Perkins has directed Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo since 1944. accompanied Sir Edmund Hil lary in a fruitless Himalayan hunt for the Abominable Snowman in 1960. St. Louis should prove almost as lively. Among the charges passed on by retiring (after 40 years) Zoo Director George P. Vierhel-ler, 79: a troupe of dancing elephants, a joint lion-tiger-leopard training act, and Mr. Moke, the talking chimp...
Suddenly, new Chinese maps began falling like snow, extending the land grab all along the Himalayan frontier. China now claimed the southern slopes of most of the major trans-Himalayan passes so as to be able to control absolutely access routes to the North. To India's protests, Red China's Chou En-lai replied that the maps were really "old" ones that his young nation had not got around to revising. India had also been lulled in 1954 when it concluded a trade treaty with the Chinese based on the ancient Buddhist code of Panch Shila...
...government has started state farms in the mountains of Ladakh to furnish the Himalayan defense forces with food supplies, all of which must now be flown in. Outposts as high as 18,000 ft. that were formerly shut down in the winter are now occupied all year round. Guarding against the health hazard of prolonged service in the mountains, Indian defense officials now rotate troops in the forward Ladakh outposts every three months. Says an Indian officer of the military buildup: "Looking five years ahead, we hope to be in a better position than the Chinese...
India's appeasement only encouraged the Chinese to go further. China is plainly working to put India into the jaws of a giant Himalayan nutcracker. Recently China concluded a road-building treaty with Nepal, is offering economic aid to the Himalayan kingdoms of Sikkim and Bhutan. The significance of the Chinese pincers movement finally occurred even to Menon. "A stab in the back," he com plained last month. "When did you realize this?" gibed Election Rival J. B. Kripalani in Parliament. "The day before yesterday?" But Menon still urged caution against "adventurism," said that the Chinese Communists should withdraw...
...give details to Parliament, on the ground that such information would be useful to the Chinese, one fact is clear: north India's population centers are far closer to the frontier than Red China's big cities, but the Chinese have built more roads to the Himalayan passes than the Indians. Most frontier areas can be reached from the Indian side only by muleback or helicopter. India's defensive position would be far better if it were to make common cause with Pakistan, but Menon sneers at the suggestion. Because Pakistan is allied with the West...