Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thailand's soft-voiced but strong-willed Premier Pibulsonggram came home from a state tour of Europe and the U.S. a year and a half ago full of the wonders of democracy. Expansively he urged his countrymen to erect themselves a Hyde Park for uninhibited soapbox oratory, offered them the kite-flying ground next to the royal palace. Going his new friend Dwight Eisenhower one better, Pibul instituted weekly press conferences, forced his hapless ministers to appear and answer rude reportorial questions about their carefree handling of public funds...
...Carol Heiss and Dave Jenkins are likely to keep their titles for years to come. Jenkins, a junior at Colorado College, is getting over the handicap of being the brother of Superstar Hayes Alan Jenkins. As for Carol, a high-school junior from Ozone Park, N.Y., Coach Pierre Brunet makes a flat prediction: "She is still ascending. She should be at her best for the 1960 Olympics...
...knee. This test of manhood merely inflames his ego; he enrolls in a creative-writing course. A story about his "true friends" and eccentrically named roommates, David Tall Man and Snowjob Porter, convinces the professor that Pat is a "born writer." But daddy Kingsgrant, a Yankee lawyer with a Park Avenue penthouse and a mind like a safety-deposit box, is not so easily hurdled. Pat scoops up his Brooks Brothers suits and heads for a Manhattan hovel to finish the Great American Novel...
...love to bet at Beacon Park...
Author Roosenburg. now a LIFE reporter, writes with such warmth and euphoria that often the great migration of prisoners seems as jolly as a Sunday in the park. The heady excitement of survival made it easy to put the dreadful past out of mind and heart. Nearing home. Henriette says: "I feel like one of those violinists at a concert who gets called back for an encore. I was so convinced that I was going to die and that the concert was over, but apparently life wants an encore. I just realized that tonight...