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Deep, in India's Punjab, near the Himalayan foothills, a burning sun beat down last week on 30,000 sweating laborers. Women in bright saris poured concrete into wooden forms; long lines of men gouged out foundations, spread smoking tar on road surfaces with hands swathed in jute sacking. Bulldozers grunted and dusty trucks rumbled up with loads of hand-made brick. The name of the place was Chandigarh, and there last week the world's most modern city was rising from a desolate plain...
...Himalayan mountain, subject of a new book...
Then there is Kashmir, the coveted Himalayan state which both sides have snarled over ever since independence. Bystanders wonder whether Kashmir (pop. 4,000,000) is worth all the sound and fury, but to Pakistan especially it is the symbol of all other rivalries. In one way or another, Kashmir is probably costing India 50% of its budget. Pakistan may be spending as much as 65% to keep its claim alive...
...Ellen Linea W. Jensen, 50-year-old Miami grandmother and astrologist who claims to be in close communion with George Washington "on the other side"; for Vice President, a man whose identity Mrs. Jensen doesn't feel free to reveal. Candidate Jensen, who says she was a "Himalayan Master" in a previous incarnation, promises to stamp out Communism "within nine minutes" of her inauguration. Though her party is "very loosely organized" and has only "a bare possibility" of getting on the ballot in Texas and Washington, Mrs. Jensen believes she is a shoo-in, since her horoscope is favorable...
...First climb Kanchenjunga," runs a well-known mountaineering challenge, "then Yerupaja." Since no one has ever scaled Himalayan Kanchenjunga (though eight men have died trying), anybody in his right mind might conclude that Peruvian Yerupaja ("The Butcher") is strictly for the birds...