Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nuts & Taboos. Sustaining himself on a diet of nuts and oranges (he had quit drinking) and working until all hours of the night, Sarit became not only Premier but the nation's chief fireman, policeman and garbage collector. He commanded housewives to hang their laundry out of sight, abolished pushcarts, opened sheltered markets, dispatched dredges to the silted canals, bought 60 new garbage trucks for Bangkok, ordered pedicabs off the street. When a rash of fires broke out in the business district last winter. Sarit raced to the scene one night, ordered four Chinese merchants shot on the spot...
Sarit himself has traveled far from the days when he headed the national lottery, with all the temptations that that involved. "If I make mistakes," he says, "it's because of ignorance rather than ill will." Today the nation's top politicians, including six ex-Premiers, are serving as his advisers, drafted into...
...fast the top boats will go because no one has ever had them wide open, and for good reason: at speeds around 180 m.p.h., the slightest swell can send them hurtling into the air. Last week Seattle's Lake Washington reverberated like a fighter strip as the nation's 14 fastest hydroplanes roared off in the top race of the year: the Gold...
...Latin American Citizens. But civic-minded Restaurateur Tijerina has not stopped there. In his spare time, busy as a platoon of pedagogues, he has launched an assault on the language barrier. By last week Tijerina had worked out a method that may spread among Spanish-speaking children throughout the nation...
...private gifts, which will make up some 21% of the total cost of higher education in 1969. If gifts flow as freely in the next decade as they do now, the council reported, the U.S. "can and will pay the big bills that are beginning to fall due . . . The nation possesses the means and will provide the support...