Word: norodom
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...Thailand, Benny had left audiences stomping with excitement (and forced competing nightclubs to open late) playing mellow arrangements of such favorites as Muskrat Ramble, Honeysuckle Rose and Up a Lazy River. Swinging on into Cambodia, the band performed for 25,000 milling fans in front of King Norodom Suramarit's palace, later cut loose in a special jam session for 100 invited diplomats and Cambodian royalty held in the palace's ornate ballroom. Grateful King Suramarit decorated Benny with the Order of Chevalier de Monisaraphon...
...Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, once his country's King, then its Premier, still its most influential citizen, was given a royal welcome in Moscow last week. He came away aglow at the "astonishing hospitality. As for the leaders of the Soviet government I have been privileged to meet, I am able to see their dynamism, clairvoyance, realism, charming simplicity of manner, remarkable comprehension of international relations and understanding of the aspirations of the Asian peoples." He gratefully accepted a Soviet offer to build and staff a hospital in the Cambodian capital, and invited the Soviet leaders to visit...
...years Norodom Sihanouk was King of Cambodia and a frolicsome young monarch was he. He played the sax and composed jazz, kept a stable of race horses and a troupe of dancing girls, produced and acted in his own movies, collected concubines and fast cars. But at the age of 29, Sihanouk discovered the great game of politics...
...Monique seemed definitely out in the cold-but there is no law in Cambodia limiting the number of wives or concubines a prince may take. When Sihanouk left for a holiday on the Riviera a fortnight ago, Monique was his companion, and her passport was made out to Madame Norodom Sihanouk. Last week the Cambodian government revealed that Sihanouk had made Monique Izzi his wife No. 2 less than a week after marrying the princess...
Last week, at Washington's Boiling Air Force Base, De Gastyne was at work on his latest assignment: converting songs by ex-King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia into a symphonic rhapsody...