Word: norlcey
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...Explorers Club in Manhattan invited Sherpa Guide Tenzing Norlcey, co-conqueror of Mount Everest (TIME, July 9), to come from Nepal to feast on American delicacies at its 50th-anniversary banquet, sent him a round-trip air ticket and asked a club member, Greece's Prince Peter, who lives in a Tibetan border town, to help arrange Tenzing's trip. But both Peter and U.S. Ambassador to India George V. Allen got a cold turndown from West Bengal officials, who suddenly discovered that Tenzing could not be spared, even for a week. He was needed, said they...
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