Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Port Washington, L.I., Bernard M. Baruch and Herbert Bayard Swope directed traffic, Baroness Robert de Rothschild served as a chauffeur. // Betty Grable turned up in Manhattan with a sweater her publicity handlers swore was knitted for her by the R.A.F. // Mme. Chiang Kai-shek sent panda-hunters to Tibet to replace the Bronx Zoo's deceased Pandora. It is her gesture of thanks to United China Relief...
...since 1924 has Tibet seen a Panchen Lama in the flesh. In that year the late Dalai Lama, secular ruler of the land, seized the spiritual power as well, drove the Panchen Lama into exile where he died in 1938. When this usurper died seven years ago, he was succeeded by a Mongolian shepherd's son. The new Dalai Lama is now being educated - as the new Panchen Lama will be - amid the spinning prayer wheels and chanting monks of a Tibetan monastery. The two lucky youths can look forward to a soft life if they are lucky enough...
...this heroic transformation is Kukan's theme. These are people that most U.S. cinemaddicts have never seen or known. They are shy, handsome, aboriginal Miaos from the mountains of Kweichow; turbaned Mohammedans from Lanchow, heart of China's northwest frontier; greasy nomads from The Gobi; Lamas from Tibet; Hans; Manchus...
...Tibet and Burma...
...Tibet and Afghanistan...