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Stretching for some 190 miles along the southern slopes of the Himalayas, north of India and south of Tibet, lies the most remote kingdom in the world. The upland valleys of tiny (18,000 sq. mi.) Bhutan are as green and inviting as those of Shangri-La, and the passes that lead into them just as forbidding. Icy winds howl along the snowswept plains behind the mountain passes to discourage the traveler. Rugged barriers of snow and ice rise as high as 24,000 ft. Dense semitropical growth clogs the lower valleys. Fever haunts the forests, making them uninhabitable...
...group of Navy electronics men was tramping through a forest on the coast of Washington. "Suddenly," reported one of them, "the woods opened up as if we had come to Shangri-La." On either side of a fine little stream-Jim Creek-stood a 4,000-ft. mountain. It was just what the Navy was looking for. Last week, more than eight years later, the bears and cougars had been driven away from Jim Creek and much of the forest was gone too. In its place stands the world's most powerful radio transmitter...
...liberals were concerned. When the Douglas statement hit the Senate teletypes, Idaho's Republican Herman Welker gleefully asked unanimous consent to read it into the record. Texas' Tom Connally, chief custodian of the Administration's foreign relations on Capitol Hill, shouted an angry objection to what Shangri-Lawyer Douglas...
Novelist James (Lost Horizon) Hilton let Columnists Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg in on a well-kept secret-the origin of his famous Shangri-La. "La means 'mountain pass' in the language of Tibet, but the Shangri was my own idea . . . made it up out of whole cloth because it sounded so Tibetan, you see. Later on, a Far Eastern scholar wrote and told me that Shangri means 'secret' in Tibetan, so there you have it ... Rather surprising, what...
Harry Truman has never cared for Shangri-La, Franklin Roosevelt's old vacation hangout in the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont, Md., but last week, under Mrs. Truman's urging, he reluctantly consented to pay it a weekend visit. It was a gloomy trip. The weather was enough to make even a President say, "I told you so»-the temperature went down to 40°, it rained & rained, and daughter Margaret developed a miserable toothache. When Harry Truman got back home, White House aides guessed that Shangri-La would never see him again...