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Born. To Phumiphon Adundet (Rama IX), 24, Massachusetts-born, jazz-loving King of Siam, and Queen Sirikit, 20, daughter of a Siamese diplomat: their second child, first son and crown prince. The birth of an heir to the Thai throne called for a booming 21-gun salute, traditional conch-shell music, and the proclamation of a national holiday...
With funds from a special White House emergency kitty, a right of way was hacked out of the jungle from San Benito on the west to Rama near the east coast. Then the war ended, and it was up to Congress to vote funds to finish the job. Year after year, Congress refused to meet an obligation that Roosevelt had contracted in his most offhand executive manner without consulting a single member of the Senate or House. Year after year, Tacho ponied up $30,000 a month to keep the road from going back to bush. This year Assistant Secretary...
...morning came, the few troopers who were awake could not believe their ears. Said Pfc. Henry Tapper: "Someone woke me up and asked me if I could hear horses on the gallop. I couldn't hear anything, but then bugles started playing, far away." Pfc. William O'Rama, who was sitting in a machine-gun emplacement, heard the bugles, too-"very faint like...
...infiltrating Red force, probably Chinese, achieved complete surprise. O'Rama and his buddies were still talking about the bugles "when a hand grenade was thrown into our hole." Some cavalryman thonght their attackers were insane. Said a U.S. sergeant: "They would stand right up in front of you laughing to beat hell...
...honeymoon. The music-loving king (he sold five songs to a Broadway musical show now in rehearsal) lifted a nine-tiered crown onto his head as army & navy guns fired 101 salutes and the temple bells of every monastery in his kingdom rang seven times. He thus became Rama IX, King of Siam...