Word: elephantic
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-They insist 'to this day that Abraham Lincoln should have accepted their King Mong-kut's timely offer of elephants in 1862. Regretfully, Lincoln explained to the King that the U.S. climate did not "favor the multiplication of the elephant." It is possible, nonetheless, that if the Union...
While the used-elephant market has been seriously depressed by automation, a mahout-maintained model with buck et seat, two-tone umbrella and stick shift costs up to $1,500 f.o.b. Bangkok, or about $4,000 delivered at the Bronx Zoo. In Thailand, a U-Ride-It elephant is still...
White Model. Nostalgic Thais recall the glorious days when Siam's elephant corps was its dreaded force de frappe.*As a member of SEATO, Thailand nowadays sets more store by its U.S.-supplied M-24 tanks. Nonetheless, allows Colonel Damnern Lekhakul, a military historian attached to the Thai general...
Most Thais also still believe, with Edward Topsell, an early 17th century bestiarist, that the elephant is a "great and ample demonstration of the power and wisedom of almighty God"-particularly the white variety. King Bhumibol has democratically quartered his own nine-year-old white model in the Bangkok zoo...
Died. Sabu Dastagir, 39, Indian-born cinemactor, who became a star at twelve when cast by Director Robert Flaherty in the title role of Elephant Boy, starred in a herd of Eastern westerns (Drums, The Thief of Baghdad); of a heart attack; in Hollywood.