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...When Communist guerrillas stepped up their campaign of subversion in the scrubby, impoverished northeast provinces, Sarit set in motion a crash $300 million program of medical, economic and educational development that undercut the Red threat. Though his rule was absolute, he always knelt before Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, encouraged Thais to accept the King as head of state and symbol of national unity...
When King Bhumibol Adulyadej last week celebrated his 36th birthday - a particularly significant anniversary to Thais, who measure life in twelve-year cycles - traditionalists were saddened not to find a single royal elephant taking part in the elaborate ceremonies. In Thailand, as elsewhere in Asia, the once enormous importance of the elephant has declined drastically. While elephant ownership is still considered prestigious, a new Cadillac or Mercedes (the King owns several of each) now rates far higher as a status symbol than a mature, 15-year-old Elephas maximus with 40 years of rugged mileage ahead...
...sharpest and most aggressive young civil servants, who once shunned the northeast as a kind of Siberia, schools are being built and electric generators installed to provide power. Government information teams are criss- crossing the northeast stressing the advantages of Thai unity; even jazz buff King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his beautiful wife, Queen Sirikit, are for the first time journeying into the area...
Thailand has no landlord problem, and having never been conquered by Europeans, no bitter memories of colonialism. Some 85% of the farmers own their own small but fertile plots. Young King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 33, whose passion is jazz, not politics, is the great-grandson of King Mongkut of The King and I fame and heir to a throne that dates back 700 years...
...West. The reigning King, grandson of Anna's princely Chulalongkorn, comes by it naturally: he was born in Cambridge, Mass. 32 years ago while his father was studying medicine at Harvard, and slakes his thirst with a special passion for clarinet and sax. Last week King Bhumibol Adulyadej (pronounced Poom-i-pon A-dool-ya-date), who looks half his age, and his almond-eyed Queen Sirikit, who looks like mandolins sound, landed in Manhattan on their four-week swing through the U.S. And all the ticker-tape parade, the ride in the subway, the view from the Empire...