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Last week, as an estimated 5,000,000 Thais trooped to the polls, Bangkok was a Jersey City in Technicolor. Charges of fire-carding, parachuting and hooliganism echoed and re-echoed. "They're cheating plenty," complained Democrat Nai Khuang, angrily waving what he said were government-doctored ballots. "I deny everything," retorted Air Force Marshal Feun Ronapakart...
...this heady new atmosphere political machines sprang up like mushrooms after a rain, and in no time at all 23 parties had named 965 candidates. Most formidable of the opposition groups was the Prachathipat (Democratic) Party headed by thin, reedy-voiced ex-Premier Nai Khuang Aphaiwong, who upheld the Pibul government's staunchly pro-Western foreign policy, but damned its corruption and authoritarianism. "We live under a government of gangsters," shrilled Nai Khuang, to the delight of thousands of assembled Bangkokians...
...only did Pibul lead all other candidates in Bangkok, but the sole woman candidate elected turned out to be his wife, Lady Laiad. True enough, two of Pibul's ministers were defeated and at least 26 seats had fallen to Nai Khuang and his Democrats, but at week's end, with 135 seats accounted for, Pibul's men had won 77-more than enough to assure the Premier control of even the free half of Parliament...
...Georgia's James Davis declared that integration had "seriously damaged-the public-school system," and recommended that it be stopped. Last week a more reasonable judgment came from Washington's Assistant School Superintendent Carl F. Hansen. Integration, says he in a study published by B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League, has been nothing less than a "miracle of social adjustment...
Crimson quarterback John Simourian was one of six football players from the Boston area honored in the Annual Football Awards of the Boston Sports Lodge of B'nai B'rith last night...