Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there. But in the U.S. as well as elsewhere around the world, sympathy had built up for Ben-Gurion's position. Last week the Israeli government in Jerusalem and its consulates overseas reported receiving thousands of letters of support from places as far apart as Bangkok and Bangor, Me., Stockholm and Santa Ana, Calif. Samples: "Don't surrender to Nasserism"; "Stick to your guns and positions"; "Call Ike's bluff"; "Don't give an inch"; "Stand pat"; "Hold tight...
Last week, as an estimated 5,000,000 Thais trooped to the polls, Bangkok was a Jersey City in Technicolor. Charges of fire-carding, parachuting and hooliganism echoed and re-echoed. "They're cheating plenty," complained Democrat Nai Khuang, angrily waving what he said were government-doctored ballots. "I deny everything," retorted Air Force Marshal Feun Ronapakart...
...Dusit, Bangkok, Thailand...
Reporting to his fellow Israeli Parliamentarians last week, former Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett was full of the snubs he and two colleagues had received at a recent meeting of the Interparliamentary Union at Bangkok. "An atmosphere of isolation such as I have never experienced at any international conference surrounded the Israeli delegation," said Sharett. Not only the Arabs and neutralist Asians but U.S. and European delegates gave him the cold shoulder, said Sharett. One Norwegian told him: "I'm sympathetic to your problems, but we Norwegians don't want atom bombs dropping on us because...
Tootling into Thailand to liven up the U.S. exhibit at an international fair, Bandleader Benny Goodman and his 14 musicians were soon summoned to Bangkok's royal palace for a command performance. For an hour, as King Phumiphon, 29, himself both a jazzy hornblower and composer (Blue Night), and Queen Sirikit tapped in tempo, Goodman and his men swung out such tunes as On the Sunny Side of the Street and a royalty-requested Lazy River. The King then gave each member of Goodman & Co. a crested silver cigarette case, was in turn presented with a handsome clarinet. That...