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Show World's 'Roof Still Remote Even Great Earthquake Was Lost in Himalayas The supercolossal earthquake that shook the Himalayas last month was 'lost" for awhile because it happened In one of the most remote re-mote places on earth. In an age in which we have come to think of this world as an open oyster, it Is startling to realize that vast areas of it are still beyond the immediate range of modern communication other than by seismograph. There are few roads, telephones, radios or any of the gadgets of civilization civ-ilization in the heart of Asia. It was only by comparing and "triangulating" "triangulat-ing" the readings of many seismographs seismo-graphs that the exact area of the mighty temblor was placed near the juncture of Tibet, Bhutan and Assam. The inaccessibility of this region stems partly from its rugged terrain, ter-rain, but even more from the desire of its hermit peoples. For 1,300 years, Tibetans, Bhutans and As-samites As-samites have kept( their minds in, ruts as deep as their sunless mountain moun-tain valleys. They like it there and resent the attempts of foreigners to lure them out. |