Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie is the character with the largest bubble. Most of his time at College he devotes to organizing a jeep safari to Bhutan, a "terrific country" somewhere on top of Tibet. As he himself explains, "I just wanna do one cosmic thing before I turn completely middle-aged and start making the same noise as all the other bees." For a while Charlie's Smith College girl gives him able support. But then she decides she would prefer to get married. "It might be dull," she says, "but it's definitely the coming thing...
Other news in TIME this week ranges from the labor temples of Britain to the art galleries of Boston, from Tibet to Indiana. Some stories are on the light side, but newsworthy in that they mirror folks as they are. Example: the PEOPLE item on how a U.S. Senator, masquerading as a Roman senator, thought he looked like Liberace...
...disadvantages of worshiping a living god is that he may bolt. This is what his supremely exalted omnipotence, Tibet's Dalai Lama, did when he heard that the Red Chinese army was approaching his capital in 1950. Persuaded to return, he found that the Communists had brought with them a rival deity, the Panchen Lama. Last summer both Lamas journeyed to Peking to attend the First National People's Congress (TIME. Sept. 27). At a cocktail party a visiting British newsman met the Dalai Lama, wearing a saffron robe and a large collection of fountain pens, and asked...
Adventure (Sun. 3:30 p.m.. CBS). "Life in Tibet," with Justice William O. Douglas...
...China-Tibet highways present new strategic daggers at the mountain passes of India, a fact that India's top soldiers worry about, but India's top politicians (Nehru & Co.) prefer not to discuss out loud. The new highways, giving Red China access to the undeveloped mineral resources of Tibet, also present impressive evidence of what a slave economy can do: the roads took 3½ years to build; their combined length (2,722 miles) is almost twice as long as China's ancient Great Wall and more than three times as long as the Burma Road...