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...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...
...Forum's program will be filled by Gyalo Thondup, brother of the Dalai Lama, the exiled ruler of Tibet. Thondup, currently in New York to present the Tibetan case against Communist China before the United Nations, will address the Forum on the evening...
...Thondup was not contacted as a substitute for Hoffa, Samuels emphasized. The Forum asked him to speak some time ago, and "just happened to complete the plans in the past few days," he said...
...real power in the palace is 35-year-old Maharaj Kumar (crown prince) Palden Thondup Namgyal, who was educated in India, and then spent several years in a Buddhist lamasery as a reincarnation of his uncle (who had been an abbot). The handsome young prince wheels over the country's 57 miles of navigable roads in a pink Mercedes and has imported a fleet of Mercedes trucks for the government...