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Clean Sweep. More than half a million' others, 60% of the electorate, also voted. Their ballots gave a clean sweep to the firmly anti-Communist Sangkum (Socialist People's Community) Party, organized only six months ago by popular, chubby 32-year-old ex-King Norodom Sihanouk. The neutralist Democratic Party, which controlled the last National Assembly before its dissolution in 1952, polled a mere 18% of the votes. The Communists got almost none except in their stronghold of Kampot, shared with other minor parties only some 12%. Sangkum candidates won all 91 seats in the new Assembly...
...Cambodia's impetuous young King Norodom Sihanouk entreated his subjects in a surprise broadcast last March, "permit me to leave my gilded cage." With that, he turned over the monarchy's six-tiered parasol to his father, Suramarit. After 14 years on the throne, 32-year-old Sihanouk was convinced that, "If I ever lose this King job, maybe I can go to Hollywood. They like Oriental characters over there, don't they? Maybe I could be a Cambodian Charlie Chan...
Reporter Dowling knew how to handle people. Stiff-backed General Templer almost managed a smile as he told him: "You are like me. I can handle you!" Cambodia's King Norodom was enchanted when Dowling did the rongeng, a Malayan dance, for him. But his basic technique, he used to say, was silence. "Sooner or later something always snaps in the other person. Someone has to talk...
...Married. Norodom Sihanouk, 33, saxophone-playing ex-king of Cambodia who abdicated in March in favor of his father. Prince Suramarit, after charging an international commission with interfering in Cambodian affairs; and Princess Norodom Norleak, his shy second cousin; both for the first time; secretly, in Pnompenh...
...remain at your disposal if you ask me to help you," said Norodom, preparing to start a new popular movement among his people. Presumably, this meant that he would pit his own popularity, rather than that of his ministers, against Son Ngoc Thanh. Norodom's course, as usual, was a little uncertain, but certain to be hectic...