Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bust. In Denver, Pete McDonald bought space in the personals column of the Rocky Mountain News for a message: 'To my sponsors, friends and anyone else it may concern: I regret to state my climb of Pikes Peak on stilts has been temporarily delayed by a visit to the V.A. Hospital, Denver. However...
...little Sikkim, the size of Delaware, has managed to preserve its identity across the centuries. Its 140,000 inhabitants lead a happy-go-lucky life amid oranges, orchids and 4,000 species of rhododendrons, in lush emerald valleys beneath 28,146-ft. Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain, and Sikkim's "protecting deity of the snowy ranges...
...Sikkimese tried to run their own show. But one day in 1949, peasants in their high boots and yakskin suits surrounded the Maharajah's yellow palace at Gangtok (pop. 7,000), a capital of doll-like houses with blue pagoda roofs, perched precariously 6,000 ft. up a mountain. In a bloodless revolution, they got their demands for an elected national council and an end to tax collection by landlords. But after a 29-day experiment in democracy, the Maharajah dispatched an S O S to India...
Naked Pink Lady. To this day, Sikkim's mountain climbers lift one flap on their fur caps, the better to hear the devils that always go uphill, never down. Lamas stage skeleton dances to drive away evil spirits. The country has no newspapers, and mail goes by pony express. There are no lawyers, because the government thinks that lawyers stir up more trouble than they are worth. A magistrate hears both sides of an argument, makes his judgment. Crime is so rare that there are never more than 15 prisoners in jail...
When Castro's seasick invaders fought past army patrols from a marshy beachhead to mountain hideouts two years ago, their extinction seemed certain. All that was needed from Batista's army, 21,000 strong and well armed, was the simple nerve required to go in and flush them out. The army tried terror instead of courage; it tortured suspects, shipped the dismembered bodies of students home to their mothers. Result: a flood of arms and recruits for Castro...