Word: himalayan
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...week's end, working against odds, Delhi's cow catchers had rounded up 500 cows for shipment to a 2,000-acre government cow home in the Himalayan foothills (unless their owners chose to claim them and pay a fine). This week they plan to go to work on the city's bulls...
...China last year massed 60,000 troops in Tibet and pointed their spearheads across the Himalayan passes toward India; it started building military roads right up to India's frontier; it laid down air bases within easy range of New Delhi and the teeming Ganges plain; it sent armed reconnaissance squads to undermine India's shaky border states-Nepal. Bhutan and Sikkim; it printed borderland maps that showed Indian districts as part of Red China. Nehru's reaction to all this (and to Red China's open call for "Asian unity" under Red China...
...during which Lowell Sr. was thrown from a horse and broke his hip while only part way over the Hump to India. This part is a major bore. But the moviegoer who .manages to sit still to the end will be rewarded by another glimpse of the almost incredible Himalayan scenery in its opal mood...
...narration and music, however, veer sharply from Stobart's camera technique. Meredith Edwards, in voicing the sometimes Biblical-sounding narration, rolls his R's with as much power as the occasional avalanches. The original underscoring, while appropriately Himalayan and amusing at times, disgorges climax after climax during some of the climbing episodes. Your soon come to imagine the crest of Everest in every frequent shot of a minor crag...
...been made at the risk of fanning local disputes. Last week, the National Security Council voted to extend military assistance to Pakistan, in spite of the disapproval of India's Nehru. The decision to grant arms aid comes at a particularly delicate moment; the Nehru controlled assembly in the Himalayan state of Kashmir, claimed by both India and Pakistan, recently voted to ratify annexation by India in spite of an earlier agreement for a plebiscite. Particularly now, Nehru fears that Pakistan will turn her new weapons against India over the Kashmir issue...