Word: bhumibol
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...being clipped, an electrical system in the chair gently massages his back and calves. Takara's salesmen boast that their chair is fit for a king. Two users of the chairs are Japan's Emperor Hirohito, who had one installed in his Tokyo palace, and King Bhumibol of Thailand...
...would continue. "Communist China is a country of over 800 million people. They can't be ignored." On arrival, however, he assured President Chiang Kai-shek that "there is no diminution in our posture here." Then he flew on to Bangkok to deliver the same message to King Bhumibol and the Thai government...
...Boeing. During a 22-hour Taipei stopover, Agnew will probably hear out President Chiang Kai-shek's misgivings about the Administration's new overtures to Peking. In Bangkok, after an audience with King Bhumibol, the Vice President will undoubtedly discuss with government officials the future of 12,000 Thai troops currently in Viet Nam. Next stop on Agnew's itinerary is Nepal; he will be the highest-ranking U.S. official ever to visit the country...
Continued Role. From Saigon the travelers went to Bangkok, where they were greeted by Thailand's Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn in a gilded, red-curtained hall of Government House. Later in their stay they had an audience with King Bhumibol Adulyadej in his lavishly landscaped palace. The Thais discussed recent strains in their country's relations with the U.S. and said that efforts to combat Communist insurgency in northeast Thailand were, in Thanom's words, having "rather satisfactory" results...
When TIME President Linen told King Bhumibol that the group planned to donate a schoolhouse to Thailand, the King asked pointedly: "What size school-house?" Following a lively discussion of school costs, American Banker George Murphy finally broke the impasse by suggesting, to Bhumibol's apparent satisfaction, that the group's gift be 500,000 baht ($25,000), which the Thais could apply toward school construction of any sort they wished...