Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's people came together under Asiatic sponsorship. The 200 delegates, from 30-odd countries and colonial territories, made an impressive spectacle. There were tiny, sloe-eyed Indonesian women in batiked lungis and husky Nepalese soldiers in rich blue brocade, bejeweled princesses, fez-topped Arabs, and lamas from Tibet in long crimson kimonos, their hair done in braids and their ears weighted with blue stone ornaments...
...Chinese delegates, headed by George Yeh, a Kuomintang yesman in the Foreign Office, took one look at the neon-lighted map behind the rostrum and rose in objection. The map showed Tibet as independent and, they gravely protested, was it not internationally recognized that Tibet is a part of China? The map was hastily changed; the poker-faced expressions of the Tibetans, who had journeyed 21 days by foot, pony, train and plane from their mountain-rimmed domain, changed to amused indulgence. When Madame Karim el Sayid, a young and buxom Egyptian, opposed Jewish immigration to Palestine, the five delegates...
...greatest prize left to modern exploration, thinks Andrews, is Amnyi Machen, a peak in eastern Tibet which may be higher than Everest. Pilots claim to have seen it from the air, but no one has measured...
...radio. Last month, it started broadcasting over WBZ's FM circuit its famed, formidable Free Public Lectures. But these, and not only because of FM's present limited audience, could never expect to draw many listeners. Reason: lecture subjects include such topics as Lamaism, the Buddhism of Tibet and Mongolia and Applications of Seismological Techniques to Engineering Problems...
...beneath the Forbidden City of Lhasa and reached by a "gravity-neutralizing" elevator, where a twelve-man Supreme Council met in a white-metal hall to plan world strategy. "Archbishop" Doreal assured brotherhood members that he kept in constant touch with the council by sending his soul back to Tibet by "astral projection...