Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his villagers. Anyway, there seemed little danger. Ap Quang Nam had been so thoroughly pacified after the marines drove the Viet Cong north of the Ca De River eight months ago that only occasional mines had shattered its tranquillity. Until last week, that is, when Tuong called a Buddhist prayer meeting at the house of his aunt in the village...
...fabled stupa of Tat Phnom, a gilt-gabled temple wherein reposes one of the Lord Buddha's ribs. The quiet country town of Tat Phnom, set on the banks of the Mekong River, was alive with revelry. Shapely Thai strippers wriggled through their acts while giggling Buddhist monks and greasy-haired village sharpies looked on. A magician sawed a girl in half. Sarong-clad farmers swilled down rice whisky, then took their turns at the local brothel. But the most unusual attraction in Tat Phnom last week was a network of foxholes from which, for a penny a round...
...from Saigon to Hue. Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon's Chi Hoa marshaling yard, his wife lights candles before an altar adorned with a gaudy bas-relief of a train steaming around a mountain...
...enough when the kid became a Buddhist," said one Rockefeller aide. "But a Democrat? That's going too far." Actually, John D. Rockefeller IV, 28, never became a Buddhist while he was studying Japanese culture on $30 a month in Kyoto, though he is committing the other heresy. Young "Jay," whose Uncle Nelson runs the New York Statehouse and Uncle Winthrop is running for the one in Arkansas, is filing as a candidate for the West Virginia house of delegates-as a Democrat. At present, Jay is a neighborhood worker in Action for Appalachian Youth, a field that...
...could be certified that for the second time in the 19-year reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 38, a white elephant was born in Thailand, thus assuring the kingdom of doubly good fortune. And so, in the traditional three-hour ceremonies at Chiangmai, King Bhumibol welcomed the albino baby. Buddhist and Brahman priests chanted blessings; the King poured lustral water, presented golden robes to the tyke, and then stuffed its mouth with sugar-cane stalks inscribed with the lucky beast's name, Phisanuphan (meaning "auspicious royal elephant"). That last touch is crucial, since without it, a white elephant soon...