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...Thai for first prize. Not since the night in 1960 when Thailand's Pone Kingpetch became flyweight champion of the world had there been such rejoicing in Bangkok. Radios blared, horns honked, and the queen pronounced herself "delighted" as bulletins flashed from Miami Beach that a Thai girl once nicknamed Pook (Fatty), raven-haired Apasra Hongsakula, 18, had been voted Miss Universe. Queen Sirikit, herself a famous beauty, had fussed with Pook before the contest, marching her up and down the palace halls to watch her posture. When it was all over, Pook (35-22-35) paraded into...
...Thailand's Pone Kingpetch, 27: his third world flyweight (112 Ibs.) championship, beating Japan's Hiroyuki Ebihara, who knocked him out in one round last September, by a split decision, in Bangkok's steaming (90°) Rajdamnern Stadium...
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