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...Westerners in that cloistered, nearly three-mile-high kingdom--the two wrestle for the love of a beautiful tailor (Lhakpa Tsamchoe). Then Heinrich is summoned by the Dalai Lama (Jamyang Wangchuk, a radiant 14-year-old from Bhutan). The boy-god of Tibetan Buddhism wants to meet this "yellowhead" who can shed light on a world that is to him only a picture-book fantasy. "For example, where is Paris, France? And what is a Molotov cocktail? And who is Jack the Ripper?" The Dalai Lama becomes the most avid student of a man who never knew...
Foreman Amberger was talking about the $82 million Trans Mountain Pipe Line now being driven through the Rocky Mountains to carry Alberta oil to the Pacific Coast. For 700 miles, from Edmonton west to Vancouver, the pipeline will follow the famed Yellowhead Pass route through the mountains, where the Canadian National Railways line was built 40 years ago, at a cost of millions of dollars and hundreds of lives. The C.N.R. still ranks as one of the great construction achievements in the development of Canada. The building of the Inch-by-lnch pipeline-driving a new road through the mountains...
Because this route cannot be kept free of snow in winter, an alternative line through Yellowhead Pass (3,717 ft.) has vociferous boosters. So does a southerly route through Crowsnest Pass. To western provincial government, the important thing is the road, not the route...
...members of the University are invited to an illustrated lecture on "A Hunting Trip from Yellowhead Pass to Peace River, British Columbia," by S. Prescott Fay '07, given under the auspices of the Natural History Society in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Fay has spent three summers camping in this region, and has secured very remarkable photographs in addition to valuable scientific data. This country is full of game and the party of four were able to live very comfortably for three months on what they shot. The particular object...
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