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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...
Beneath triumphal arches, about 350 Communist trucks roared through Tibet into the Forbidden City of Lhasa last week, along two new main roads from Red China. Thirty thousand Tibetans gathered before the legendary Potala palace to greet the trucks, which symbolized their first main road contact with the outside world. Communist authorities paid tribute to the eternal friendship between Red China and Tibet, which the Communists had conquered in 1951, and decorated the workers who had drawn the new highways across the roof of the world...
...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...