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Different Standards. Despite its long climb, the market is still not as high as it looks. In prices, it is getting within long-range shooting distance of 1929's Himalayan peak (381.17). But sales and earnings have so far outstripped 1929's that comparisons with 1929 prices are no longer valid...
Justice William O. Douglas, who had 23 ribs cracked when his horse fell on him two years ago, had another horse kick him in the shin last year, arrived in New Delhi after a hike through the Himalayan mountains. The record this time: one toss from a frisky yak, two falls from a mule. Damage: a sprained wrist, an aching back...
Enchanted Land (Billy Eckstine; M-G-M). Rimsky-Korsakov's Song of India, sugared up and topped by a Himalayan helping of Eckstine's butterscotch baritone...
...months ago, Nepal's King Tribhubana fled from the despotic rule of his hereditary Prime Minister Rana and took refuge in India (TIME, Nov. 20). Last week King Tribhubana got ready to return to his throne. Prime Minister Rana had agreed to changes in the Himalayan kingdom which his family had bossed for 104 years. Promised reforms: 1) equal representation in the cabinet for the anti-Rana Nepal Congress Party; 2) election of a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution; 3) amnesty for political prisoners. Rana gave in mostly because of pressure from India whose antimonarchist leaders...
...Dalai Lama, last fortnight left his capital, Lhasa, on what the Indian government representative in Tibet described as "an official tour." Indian newspapers reported that the Lama was planning to set up a new seat of government at Yatung, a town in the Chumbi valley just across the Himalayan divide separating Tibet from the Indian-protected state of Sikkim...