Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though sandwiched in between the world's two most populous giants, the mountain kingdom of Nepal is a sort of no man's land, as yet uncommitted to any particular time or to any particular future. Last week, having covered a Nepalese tour by U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, who is accredited to both India and Nepal, TIME Correspondent Donald S. Connery filed a report on a nation that seems to be having such a trying time breaking into the 20th century...
...politics, Nepal lives as if nothing would ever change very much. Of its 10 million people, 97% are illiterate, and most are peasants who are mortgaged to their feudal landlords for generations to come. With tender care they terrace the steep slopes of the hillsides, cheerfully trudge treacherous mountain paths with their incredible loads as they have for centuries. Today the sights and sounds of Nepal are still for the most part the timeless ones-stubby men in tiny houses, women carrying their children papoose-style, the faithful spinning the prayer wheels at the base of mound-shaped stupas...
...MOUNTAIN ROAD (347 pp.)-Theodore H. Whife-Sloane...
Against this turbulent, doom-splashed setting, Reporter and Author Theodore H. (for Harold) White (Thunder Out of China, Fire in the Ashes) projects a well-crafted first novel. A June Book-of-the-Month Club co-selection, The Mountain Road combines a pistol-paced war story with the education of a quiet American major whose cultural reflexes are slower than his command decisions...
Possessed by Duty. Major Philip Baldwin is a rear-echelon engineer officer with a fever for field duty. He volunteers to command a seven-man demolition team whose main target is the twisting mountain road along which all vehicles, including his own and the pursuing Japanese, must travel. The road is an undulating mass of Chinese refugees moving in grim lockstep with fear, famine and misery. In their eyes, the Americans are the dei ex machina shielded from fatality by the jeep, the SCR-300 radio and the K-ration...