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...from the tigers was the perennial worry of TIME'S three correspondents in India (Bureau Chief James Burke and Achal Rangaswami are the other two). Their worry: how to get around quickly enough to cover their immense beat-not only India and Pakistan, but also Burma, Ceylon and Nepal. Burke, Brown and Rangaswami must track down news in a territory that is eight times as big as Texas: some 2,000,000 square miles. It includes more than 400 million people (one-fifth of all the people on earth), and the number of dialects spoken in this area-India...
Gravely they shook hands, and Tenzing, forgetting formality, hugged Hillary like a bear. Then they took photographs of the British, Nepal, Indian and U.N. flags lashed to Tenzing's icepick...
...Trek. The ascent had been planned with the thoroughness of a commando raid: vast preparation for a brief but crucial hour. The expedition assembled in March at Katmandu, capital of Nepal. Its leader was John Hunt, 43, a grizzled British colonel whose knowledge of mountains (Kangchenjunga, K-36) and men (in World War II, he commanded Pathans, Gurkhas, Dogras and Scots) quickly won respect...
When the victory news hit Nepal, where 37 year-old Tenzing was born, the government proposed that May 29 should henceforth be a national holiday, known as Tenzing Day. In India, where he lives (in a Darjeeling slum), a public subscription was opened to build him a new home, and when he and Hillary arrived at New Delhi Airport this week, 3,000 fans burst the police cordons and swept him a quarter mile down the runway, shouting "Tenzing Zindabad!" (Long Live Tenzing...
Queen Elizabeth's decision to knight Hunt and Hillary, but to delay decorating Tenzing until his nationality had been established, made matters worse. King Tribhuvan of Nepal decided to even things up by giving Tenzing the Star of Nepal. First Class, while dismissing the two Britons with the lesser Order of the Strong Right Arms of the Gurkhas. He offered Tenzing his private plane, while Hunt and the British were left to go it alone...