Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phon Phayuhasena, 60, moonfaced, swashbuckling onetime strong man of Siam, leader of the 1933 coup d'etat which eventually resulted in the abdication of the late King Prajadhipok, for five years premier and dictator, briefly in 1941 a yellow-robed, Buddhist beggar-monk; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bangkok...
...although beef from southernmost Mindanao is still being flown to Manila because of the lack of refrigerator ships. A thousand surplus tractors have helped boost carabao-geared farm production; the Filipinos are now nearly self-sufficient in food. There is no threat of cholera, which daily kills scores in Bangkok ; no plague, which continually ravishes part of China. Three million children, compared to a prewar two million, are back in school. Driving through Mindanao, I was amazed at the number of schools. Communal problems there are small. Said one Mohammedan datu (chieftain): 'We tolerate the Christians...
...will extend its present mid-Pacific routes: 1) from Manila to Saïgon, Singapore and Batavia; 2) from Midway to Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong; and 3) from Hong Kong via Saïgon, Bangkok and Rangoon to Calcutta, where it will connect with its North Atlantic route...
...royal household. But Rex the rex injects enough jaunty wit in 100 minutes to make up for years of freekle-faced 2nd lieutenants and monosyllabic bathing beauties. From a first knowing look down to an inspired performance vending napkins to emissaries of the western nations at the Bangkok version of a formal dinner, the picture is his. Thus it is that "Anna and The King of Siam" take their place as one of those rare pairs who can close a picture with interest, virtue, and without love...
...editor of Bangkok's Prajatipatai (Democrat) was swiftly arrested for suggesting the immediate resignation of Pridhi. An investigation, he wrote, should be made under a government not responsible for what happened. A third editor rose to new heights of personal journalism by offering his own head for conclusive shooting tests...