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...centuries the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has remained as enigmatic and elusive to Western eyes as the legendary Abominable Snowman that ambles across its snowy slopes. Dotted with aerie temples and emerald valleys, ruled by a Dragon King whose subjects dress like Renaissance page boys, Bhutan relished the role of the world's last Shangri-La, and kept a closed door to foreigners. As a result it preserved a way of life indistinguishable from that of its countrymen a thousand years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Styles: Secrets of Shangri-La | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...saying baby baby baby. And Larry seems sad. But just for a moment. "Stay there," he says as he goes over to a shelf. "We just got these in." He comes back holding a pair of furry pants. "Yetti pants," he explains. "Yetti is another word for the Abominable Snowman." I stroked the pants. "Just like a rug," he grins. Groovy...

Author: By Reed Jackson, | Title: Groovy | 12/15/1966 | See Source »

...FANTASY HOUR (NBC, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). Burl Ives is the off-camera voice of a snowman who sings and narrates Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, an animated Christmas story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 3, 1965 | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...death, Khrushchev relieved the papers' grey monotony by allowing more lively coverage and makeup. As editor of Izvestia, Khrushchev's son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei, introduced a degree of cautious criticism; he also went in for some mild sensationalism, such as reporting the activities of the Abominable Snowman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Revisions in Russia | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

Seismic Rumble. A tireless field man himself, Perkins accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on an expedition to hunt down the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas, returned with the disappointing news that the big tracks had been made by foxes and other small animals, whose imprints subsequently melted into scary giant forms. Jim Fowler, 34, the apotheosis of Jungle Jim, spent a month in Africa putting together a documentary on elephants. A television first for an upcoming Kingdom show: Fowler's recordings of elephant stomach rumblings, which are seismic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Fang & Fin Hour | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

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