Word: nepal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agency, located farther to the east. No boundary in this area is clearly delineated, but the southern border of Tibet, as fixed by the McMahon line, runs more or less along the peaks of the Himalayas. The hill country south of the Himalayan range comprises (from west to east) Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan, and the NEFA. There has been considerable competition between China and India to dominate the first three of these areas--Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan. Though Indian influence was originally very strong in all of them, the Indians have of late been losing ground to the Chinese...
...does the well-dressed skater wear over her leotard this year? Leopard, of course, but not any old spotted cat. On the outdoor skating rink of Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza, raven-haired Model Diane Conlon, 17, fetchingly demonstrated a pale, shaggy snow leopard from the icy reaches of Nepal. And for almost any girl, whether she can skate or not, Diane's pretty partners, modeling for the kick-off campaign of New York's United Hospital Fund, showed that Cambodian tiger, white mink and red nutria also...
...Colorado summer school, Founder Froelicher & Co. plan to soon keep it open ten months a year, and to start sea schools in Maine and California. They have an admiring new applicant: the Peace Corps. Slated, to join the third batch of boys in Colorado this summer are 50 Nepal-bound Peace Corpsmen-including 19 women...
...Gurkhas, natives of Nepal, are among the most fearsome fighters who have ever waged war; the British first encountered them during border wars in 1814, when the wiry little peasants fought so well against the redcoats that the British later decided to sign them on as mercenaries. Wrote one awed British officer after he first observed the Gurkhas in action: "I never saw more steadfastness or bravery exhibited in my life. Run they would not, and of death they seemed to have no fear...
...begin with, the Gurkhas served as part of the British army in India. After independence, the Indians took over six of the ten regiments while the British got the other four. By special treaty, the British are still allowed to recruit Gurkhas in Nepal. The soldiers' paychecks (a Gurkha private in Britain today averages $56 monthly) and pensions continue to be a mainstay of the Nepalese economy...