Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bearing gifts of incense for the occult natives, pairs of newsmen headed for Haiti's voodoo country, forbidden Tibet, the Congo, and mystic Baffin Island to replace wizened H Flung Huey ocC, whose untimely resignation came Sunday night...
Turinese Tailor Antonio Santomauro, who made the elaborately embroidered Mantle of Peace worn by Pope Pius XII for special ceremonies, was busily stitching away at two more peace jackets. One, of Tibet wool, double-breasted with four gold buttons and an embroidered globe carried by two small doves, will go to Harry Truman. To Joseph Stalin, courtesy of Tailor Santomauro, will go a single-breasted job, buttoned to the throat, with one embroidered dove...
...doesn't have the same sense of immediacy as a Western order," he explained. It would take "several months" to prepare for the journey home, several more to wait for the Himalayan spring thaws. By that time Yuthok's hair would again be respectably long-and perhaps Tibet might still be waiting for the Communist blow to fall...
...Tibet's ruling lamas, by contrast, shave their heads from the day (at nine or ten) when they are confirmed as priestly "disciples of the gods...
...world over one day last fortnight registered an earthquake so violent that the record of its convulsions ran off the paper. Because of the incomplete recordings, seismologists were unable at first to determine the quake's location, later reckoned that it must have hit hardest in southeastern Tibet and in northern Assam (a province of India). Communications with this wild mountain region, always poor, had stopped abruptly; the extent of the damage done by the quake could only be guessed at. By last week, frightening evidence of the quake's dreadful work in Assam had begun to reach...