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...days, Thailand's young (28) King Phumiphon Adundet this week wound up his term as a Buddhist monk (TIME, Sept. 24). In keeping with the royal tradition that a Thai king should spend some time as a priest (like any devout male commoner). Phumiphon, saffron-robed, barefoot and shaven-pated, had turned his kingdom into the hands of Queen Sirikit, 24, who acted as regent during the King's religious furlough...
...which it is fun to tear wings from flies, might now amuse themselves by tearing the heads from men.'' Such precocious youngsters crowded Philip's court. Two of his three sons were deceived by their highborn wives, who paid for their sins with shaven skulls and imprisonment, while their lovers were broken on the wheel, flayed alive, castrated and decapitated. His intriguing daughter Isabella was unhappily married to Edward II of England, a king who would rather drape his arm with "suspect familiarity" around a young workman than em brace his queen. Courtiers, prelates, Lom bard bankers...
...sergeant strung up for what he had done began, instead, to sense that this man was another argument. It was an argument that went to the roots of the Marine Corps, that involved not only one Marine but the other 200,000 beside him-and the unnumbered shaven-headed boots yet to come...
Shortly after 8 o'clock on Sunday night, Staff Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon, favoring a pulled leg muscle, limped into the barracks of Platoon 71 at the U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C. As the shaven-headed Marine boots popped to attention, McKeon gazed coldly around and snapped: "Fall out in two minutes." The men-mostly 17-and 18-year-olds-grabbed for their caps and fatigue jackets, scrambled for the door, formed outside the barracks. Lean, usually soft-spoken Matt McKeon, 31, rapped out a crisp command and, using a broomstick for support on his lame...
...leave from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve to help put the international goodwill situation well in hand for the State Department, ist Lieut. Bob Mathias, 24, world and Olympic (1948, 1952) champion in the decathlon, turned out for an exhibition in Teheran. As admiring Iranians watched, he let a shaven-topped lad touch his discus for good luck...