Word: angkor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAMBODIA. One of the greatest kings of early Buddhism was Cambodia's Jayavarman VII, the builder of Angkor Wat. Today leftist Prince Sihanouk, as Cambodia's Chief of State and High Protector of the Buddhist religion, assiduously cultivates the god-king role. Following the Buddhist road of the middle, intones Sihanouk, he means to be halfway between capitalism and Marxism at home and neutralist abroad...
...same as the story of Orpheus. The lovers themselves (Sam El and Narie Hem) are even more beautiful than the lovers in the earlier film-they look like oriental deities sculptured in living flesh. The color is rich and sensuous, and the camera catches dim disturbing glimpses of Angkor Wat, the great stone temple that lies sleeping in the jungles of Cambodia like a monstrous unimaginable spider...
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Another sample of Disney's wonderful way with animals-this time elephants, shown both live on location at Angkor Wat and in animation drawn by the Disney Studios...
...cloth and other gifts from his chopper upon the amazed peasants below. Sihanouk also continued a shrill diplomatic campaign that seems to assume that Cambodia, with its 5,500,000 people-a country known to many Westerners only vaguely as the locale of the magnificent, slumbering old temples of Angkor Wat-is somehow at the heart of the international scene and the center of the cold...
...dinner. There is also a viper called the Two-Step-it bites you, you take two steps and die. Bees the size of shuttlecocks kamikaze across the steaming landscape, and Cambodian cockroaches get so big they almost block traffic. Noonday temperature at Siem-reap, the site of Angkor Wat, averages 130°, and dysentery is so prevalent that it has given rise to a style of half-trot called "the Cambodian canter...