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Professional photographers were yelling their heads off about who would be the one pool man allowed to shoot pictures for everybody. All right, snapped an amateur photographer, I'll do it. And since he was also a Maharajah, that settled things indeed. So Sikkim's Palden Thondup Namgyal, 40, did an Antony Armstrong-Jones, took the first picture of his wife, former Manhattanite Hope Cooke, 23, with their week-old son. Hope's son has no claim to the throne (the Maharajah's two sons by an earlier marriage will take care of that...
Born. To Hope Cooke, 23, Manhattan-born Maharani of Sikkim, and the Maharajah Palden Thondup Namgyal, 40: their first child, a son (the Maharajah has three children by his first wife, who died in 1957); in Calcutta...
Parties & Pants. Merely to be believed, the Savage requires a better-natured audience than a composer can expect to find in all Christendom. Attempting "smiling satire," Menotti has a Vassar girl (Roberta Peters) go to India in search of the Abominable Snowman. Her father (Morley Meredith) meets a maharajah and arranges a marriage of convenience between his daughter and the maharajah's son (Nicolai Gedda). But the girl is an anthropologist, and she insists upon her savage. Her father offers a peasant (George London) $100,000 to play the role, and the ersatz savage allows himself to be packed...
Private Mountain. The land where Hope will rule is so small that its 2,748 sq. mi. and 162,000 people could fit comfortably into a U.S. national park like Yellowstone. The new Maharajah personally owns Kanchenjunga which, at 28,146 ft., is the third tallest moun tain in the world and probably the world's most majestic when its snowy peaks are lit by the sunrise and borne aloft on lacy clouds. Sikkim contains every variety of climate and plant, from the subtropical through the temperate to the arctic. Snow leopards prowl the Himalayan slopes, pandas frolic...
Wedged between Tibet and India, Sikkim usually has been tributary to one or another of its neighbors. When India won its independence from Brit ain in 1947, so did Sikkim. But to the late Maharajah, freedom brought more problems than profit. One day in 1949, several thousand peasants swarmed around the blue and white royal palace (actually a large bungalow) demanding an elected national council and tax reforms. Tashi submitted to the experi ment in democracy for 29 days and then, feeling unable to cope with what was called "threatened disorder," asked India's Nehru for help. Nehru sent...