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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since seizing power 13 months ago, Strongman Sarit has spent most of his time abroad undergoing treatment for a chronic liver ailment in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, and then in Britain. Back home, his Chart Sang-khom Party seemed safely in control of two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, after an election he had decreed; his own man, General Thanom Kittikachorn, was Premier; young King Phumiphon was carefully holding himself above politics and giving no encouragement to the opposition. When a Soviet attaché and a Tass newsman spoke slightingly of Sarit this month, the government...
Reflecting on these symptoms of unrest as he paced in his borrowed estate 25 miles from London, Strongman Sarit decided it was time to reassert himself. He flew back to Bangkok last week. Next day he dissolved the National Assembly, deposed the Premier, banned all political parties, scrapped the constitution and promised to draw up another (which will not be submitted to a referendum), padlocked a dozen publications, and declared martial law because of "pressure of internal and external forces, especially of the Communists." In the name of the "revolutionary party," Sarit promised Thailanders that he would 1) respect...
...Back to the Streets. The revival came in 1954, when Juracy took over. He came out strongly for "stimulation of foreign investment." For the "lunch-pailers" he plugged "free, autonomous trade unions." Brazil, he said, must be a "cordial, independent ally of the U.S." By 1955 the campaign was taking effect; in that year's election U.D.N. made a good showing against Kubitschek, who won on a minority of the vote, edged by with 3,077,400 votes to the U.D.N...
...specialty, e.g., Marlene, who was married at 19, thinks today's "teenagers should not marry because they don't have enough experience." She also explained that she has steadily rebuffed all approaches from TV because "overexposure in any way is bad." Why does she keep going back to Las Vegas? "Money [$30,000 a week]." How does she manage to go on looking so young? "Well, I'm not too old [53], you know...
...Angeles to read his poetry on Milton Berle's television show, durable, leathery Carl Sandburg, 80, stuck to whisky sours at a Hollywood cocktail party in his honor. Back in his prairie years, he told adulating filmlanders, he "reviewed a thousand films in seven years for the Chicago Daily News." Someone asked what he thought of the Beat Generation writers. Said Sandburg: "I don't concern myself with ephemera...