Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes ago, I passed Addis Ababa. I want to wish you success to your leaders there. Good luck to all of you in Africa." Cooper flew seven times over Red China, the first U.S. astronaut to pass above that hostile land. He saw smoke curling from chimneys in Tibet, the glow of lights in Perth, Australia, even spotted his present home town of Clear Lake, Texas, near Houston's new Manned Spacecraft Center. In all. Cooper sped over more than 100 nations. To recover him promptly if he came down on foreign soil, the U.S. State Department got advance...
...Mount Everest's horrors have a powerful fascination for a peculiar species of human: the mountaineer. Since 1920, when Tibet first agreed to let foolhardy foreigners gamble their lives against an instant of immortality at the rooftop of the world, 15 expeditions have started for the summit. Two, perhaps three, made it: New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing, first conquered Everest in 1953; a Swiss party followed in 1956; and Soviet-Chinese climbers say they planted a statue of Mao Tse-tung at the top in 1960-a claim that most experts...
...play the piano in every country of the world but two," Artur Rubinstein often says. "Tibet, because it is too high, and Germany, because it is too low." To this, he stiffly adds that his Teutonopho-bia is a sturdy vintage '14-under Hitler it merely matured. It was the atrocities in Belgium during World War I that first moved Rubinstein to swear "a solemn and heavy oath" he would smash his fingers before playing again in Germany, and the oath grew heavier in World...
...developed his small but sure range of chamber-music orchestration. The action of the book moves about the peeling off, in successive layers, of Waring's false colors. His reported death causes the commission of a quick biography. This reveals that Waring's books on Ceylon, Tibet, Spain, etc., have been largely lifted from forgotten, out-of-print books by genuine travelers. He had never been anywhere farther flung than a pension on the French Riviera. His name was sometimes Robinson, but as a last resort, Pimley. Then it transpires that even his death was phony...
...been reading TIME since 1935, and had saved many back copies. Randall now has 402 covers signed by subjects, among them Konrad Adenauer, Moise Tshombe, U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard and Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Marilyn Monroe (who signed in red ink), J. Paul Getty (who signed in black), and Tibet's Dalai Lama. Some of the signers send more than their autograph: John F. Kennedy enclosed an autographed picture with one of the two covers he signed; Abdul Karim Kassem (whose signature is a collector's item now), sent a copy of a speech he had just made...