Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bangkok, a state dinner had been held for Burke. Dressing for the dinner, Burke turned to the young officers who had accompanied him. "All right, men," he said. "We are about to meet the head of state of a foreign power, a man that might challenge you on any subject. Put yourself in my place. You are a senior representative of the U.S. Government. What would you do?" The officers looked blank. Snapped Burke: "Think. Just think. And don't stop thinking." The U.S. Navy still has a long way to go in its revolution, but under Arleigh Burke...
HOTELMAN CONRAD HILTON, whose globe-girdling empire already takes in eleven foreign cities, will move into another. In a joint venture with former Queen Rambai Barni of Thailand and local businessmen, Hilton will build and operate a $4,000,000 hotel in Bangkok with all the luxury trimmings: 300 air-conditioned rooms, restaurants, shops, and a roof garden overlooking the city's canals and temples...
East is opening up: Bangkok will be visited by some 10,000 U.S. tourists this year v. 2,000 in 1951, while India expects some 17,000, up 180% in four years. For the first time since World War II, the South Sea Islands will be easily available to tourists. In July Australia's South Pacific Airlines will start twice-weekly flights from Honolulu to Papeete. By October two new Matson liners will be plying the San Francisco-Sydney run, with stops at Tahiti, Samoa and the Fijis...
When the U.S. DC-6 bearing Secretary of State John Foster Dulles appeared over Don Muang Airport one afternoon last week, Thailand's Prime Minister Pibulsonggram was still fretfully edging his way through Bangkok traffic in his Ford Thunderbird. Informed by the airport tower, the pilot of the Dulles plane circled for seven minutes until the Prime Minister thundered onto the field. Bangkok was a courtesy call for Dulles: there were no critical problems to be ironed out. After he departed the next day (Pibulsonggram and the Thunderbird were late for the goodbye) only three of the eight Thai...
Combined Operations. In Bangkok, after diligent research, police finished compiling a definitive list of all bordellos in the city, announced that interested persons could obtain relevant information from any of the force's 55 open-all-the-time roadside police booths...