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When the approval finally came, Kraar flew north 500 miles from Bangkok to the royal mountain villa. He was accompanied by a man who doesn't get to do much reporting-Time Inc. President James Linen, who was traveling in Thailand at the time. The monarch talked candidly for an hour on subjects that ranged from Communist subversion to modern painting. The talks went so well that the TIME men were asked to stay on for luncheon and more conversation...
...piano and begins. The lean, intense face seems to exhale a melancholy all its own, but the fingers are as joyous as they were in the old days. The Chopin sings; the opaque, psychedelic visions of Scriabin are somehow made lucid. A critic calls him still a monarch. His wife is overjoyed at all the adulation. "Mr. Horowitz," she says, "is like a fifth Beatle...
...gets murmured answers about birds and flowers, finds that the topic becomes vivid and exciting to the kids after they view a film showing buds bursting into leaves through speeded-up film. A similar movie, also speeded up, shows how a caterpillar spins a cocoon, emerges as a splendid monarch butterfly-an experience no textbook or teacher or even nature can otherwise convey...
...Russians, export one million bedstead knobs in 1964 and persuade foreigners to buy water from Glasgow can be relied upon to sell anything," he commercialized at a luncheon. As New York's Senator Jacob Javits, a bit mixed up on titles, proclaimed: "He's a very relaxed monarch...
Tears streamed down the cheeks of Moroccan Interior Minister Mohammed Oufkir as he bent to kiss the hand of his monarch. King Hassan II had just expressed complete confidence in the hawk-faced general, and angrily denied French charges that Oufkir had had anything to do with the mysterious kidnaping and supposed murder of Leftist Leader Mehdi Ben Barka. All very stirring, but on closer inspection it developed that the tears in Oufkir's eyes were caused not by gratitude but rather by a cataract usually hidden behind his sunglasses...