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...Laotian Proverb...
...Mekong. Half its people are Thais, living in the lowland valleys; the other half are primitive Khas and Meos. Huge, smiling statues of Buddha dot the landscape, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks are everywhere. Wearing scarlet jackets, gold and silver beads and bracelets and flowers in their hair, the Laotian women are graceful and attractive and given to music, dancing and proverbs. At nightlong parties, they dance the Lap Ton to a harmonious, high-pitched, 17-hole flute called the Ken. It is said that French officers, after a tour of duty in Laos, remain forever afterward vaguely inattentive...
...them with troops and flew them into the Plaine des Jarres at the rate of 50 aircraft a day. At Saigon, soldier clerks and interpreters were sent off to fight in Laos. At week's end there was a strong force of Foreign Legion battalions reinforcing the slim Laotian army. But Communist Giap had chosen his time well: within a few weeks the rainy season begins in Laos, and all but two of its 20 airstrips become unusable. This was why he had waited so patiently at the border, while the French-listening to the peace noises...
...kingdom of Laos is a wild and mountainous strip of land in the interior of Indo-China. It is almost twice as large (89,320 sq. mi.) as Pennsylvania, has a population of 1,012,000. Last week, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sisavang Vong, King of the Laotians, and French President Vincent Auriol signed a treaty establishing Laos as an independent nation within the French Union. French soldiers, who henceforth would be required to salute the Laotian flag, should have little trouble recognizing it: a red field bearing a three-headed white elephant topped by an umbrella...
...realize the tedious preliminaries which lie behind extended exploration. In this case over a year was spent in careful planning and equipment was sent to the cast from London six months ahead. Personnel is another perplexing problem and Mr. Coolidge deserves praise for handling pugnacious gun-bearors and sly Laotian hunters who tried to cheat him by selling him pheasants they had shot while in his employ. This book should be of local interest not only because its authors are both Harvard men but because Mr. Coolidge's zoological training resulted in part from his activities on the Harvard Liberian...