Word: thondup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debutante and a Sarah Law rence graduate (in Oriental studies), Hope Cooke had a crush on Central Asia. Her dreams seemed to come ro mantically true last March when she married Sikkim's Crown Prince Palden Thondup Namgyal in a now-legendary ceremony at the capital city of Gangtok (TIME, March 23). Last week, when the crown prince's 70-year-old father, Maharajah Sir Tashi Namgyal, died of cancer in a Calcutta nursing home, Hope and her husband mounted the throne of the mountain-locked Himala yan kingdom. The formal coronation will take place after one year...
...Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain and Sikkim's "protecting deity," hung a blue haze. It was an "auspicious sign," said Gangtok astrologers, for the wedding of a quiet, blue-eyed New York girl, Hope Cooke, 22, and Gyalsay Rimpoche Maha-rajkumar Palden Thondup Namgyal, 39, crown prince of the Indian protectorate of Sikkim, a tiny territory the size of Delaware, which has 3,000 varieties of rhododendrons, and where, according to local legend, the devils always travel uphill...
...third highest mountain, 28,216-ft. Kanchenjunga, Sikkim's "protecting deity of the snowy ranges." The country has no newspapers and permits no lawyers to practice because the government thinks that lawyers are far more trouble than they are worth. Sikkim's heir apparent, Maharaj Kumar Palden Thondup Namgyal, 38, is engaged to 21-year-old U.S. Socialite Hope Cooke, but he will not marry her until 1963 because all 1962 has been judged as astrologically unfortunate...
Friendship's End. As if to dramatize the jurists' measured account, last week a new spate of refugees poured across the border into India. Among the latecomers was one Thondup Lowazang, 27, who until a few weeks ago had been deputy commander of 100 Chinese troops in the Shigatse area. A longtime Communist even before the Chinese marched in, Thondup had been happy to show the Chinese how to handle his own people until he saw the village of Kimrimchogor, once home to 700 families, reduced by bombing and firing squad to 20 individuals because it was suspected...