Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best daily newspaper in Thailand is edited by a wiry, wearily patient American named Darrell Berrigan. An expatriate newsman and longtime resident of Bangkok. Berrigan got his newspaper last year through an orientally inscrutable tactic-he wrote a magazine article charging that Thailand's chief cop, General Phao Sriyanond, was also Thailand's biggest opium smuggler. General Phao was impressed. With characteristic Thai logic, he apparently reasoned that any newsman intimate enough with the country's boatmen, taxi drivers, prostitutes and businessmen to put together such a report would make an ideal editor. Phao hired Berrigan...
...world as a freelance writer. In 1939 he landed in Shanghai flat-broke and wangled a job with the United Press. Except for brief trips back to the U.S., he has been in the Orient ever since. He spent two years reporting the Sino-Japanese War, then moved to Bangkok shortly before Pearl Harbor. When Thailand meekly surrendered to the Japanese, Berrigan's Thai friends hustled him aboard the last train out of the country, and a sympathetic Thai captain cleared his papers at the Chinese border. Berrigan has never forgotten that the Thais saved him from a prison...
...Flying Tigers and General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's campaigns, filed some good I-was-there stories on the British retreat from Burma. Quitting U.P. in 1945, Berrigan freelanced around the Far East (Saturday Evening Post, New York Times) until he met General Phao and the World in Bangkok...
...minds of men in underdeveloped lands all over the world were turned last week to a crowded Caribbean island that flies a proud one-star flag beside the Stars and Stripes. To men in New Delhi, Accra, Bangkok and Morocco, tiny Puerto Rico, which has clawed its way in 15 years to a nearly doubled standard of living, spoke an urgent message of hope through self-help-and spoke it with the special clarity of a teacher who is only ten pages ahead of the class...
...editor of India's Hindustan Times visited Puerto Rico last year, marveled: "The face of the island is being changed." Ghana, which modeled its civil-service training on Puerto Rico's, was getting advice on industrialization from two of the island's experts. Prabha Prachasubhaniti of Bangkok Technical Institute copied in his school a workshop setup he had seen in Puerto Rico. Mehdi ben Barka, president of Morocco's Consultative Assembly, took inspiration for his development program (TIME, Sept. 9) from a look at the island last fall...