Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Afraid that the Naga revolt may spread to other tribes and give Red China an opening to step in on the disputed Indo-Tibet border, Prime Minister Nehru last week called on the Indian army to join Assam's armed police in an offensive operation against the rebels. Next day Naga terrorists kidnaped seven pro-government villagers in broad daylight, beheaded four of them. In the Assam hills warriors scornfully tore from their colorful costumes the dyed goat hair that they had substituted for human hair. Into its place, once more, went the real thing...
...first American commander in history ever denied the right to fight to win. Because the U.S. failed to drive the Communists out of Korea, "Red China promptly was accepted as the military colossus of the East. Korea was left ravished and divided. Indo-China was partitioned by the sword. Tibet was taken almost on demand. Other Asian nations began to tremble toward neutralism...
...World War I he worked for the Allies as translator (he speaks eight languages), was so shocked by German atrocities in Belgium that he vowed never to play in Germany again, and never has. Asked what countries he had not visited in the last 40 years, he once named Tibet, because it is too high, and Germany, because it is too low. In 1938 he returned a decoration awarded him by Mussolini with a telegram signed "Artur Rubinstein, Jewish pianist...
...movie which documents this invasion treads a fine path between two extremes: Lowell Thomas and Tibet. Except for repeated shots of Mr. Thomas Sr. bathing (rear view) and growing a beard (front view), the Thomas' have kept pretty well out of camera range. However, the narration by Lowell Thomas Jr. which accompanies the monks and mountains that flash across the screen manages to keep Tibet pretty well out of range. Sample line: "This mule is driven by a chap named Lulu and what a lulu...
...Tibet, according to the script, is a land of few but salient features: yaks, prayer flags, monks, and declining population. Yaks especially. Tibetans plow their fields with yaks, eat yak meat and cheese, light their lamps with yak butter, and drink fifty cups of yak butter tea a day. Yak is also the country's chief export--its fur makes Santa Clause beards. Lowell Thomas Jr. adds significantly now and then, "Yes, it's those old yaks again...