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...SIAM MIAMI by Morris Renek. 448 pages. Macmillan...
...with any overwhelming event, the fallout was widespread and sometimes offbeat. Scores of children born last week were named "Apollo" or "Moon," "Tranquillity" or "Luna." The Siam Motor Works offered scholarships from primary school through university for the Thai children born nearest the exact moments of lunar landing and splashdown. The Berlin Zoo christened three wildcat cubs born during the moon walk Neil, Buzz and Mike. For a "moon happening" in Vienna, a bakery produced a 300-lb., 6-ft. cake decorated with marzipan craters...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8:30-11:05 p.m.). Deborah Kerr, as Governess Anna Leonowens, squares off against Yul Brynner in his Oscar-winning performance as Siam's petulant but engaging monarch in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King...
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Starlight Musicals. Ann Blyth sings her way through Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The King...
Most Extraordinary. Politicians and intellectuals, insisting that the new constitution automatically does away with martial law, were upset by Praphas' announcement. Said the Bangkok newspaper Siam Rath: "Thailand would be a most extraordinary country if we were to maintain this double standard." Then, in an event both startling and significant for a country in political hibernation for a decade, Thai university students took to the streets for their first political-protest demonstration in eleven years-initially against martial law, then against a bus-fare hike and high rice and pork prices. Ignoring the warnings of police, several thousand marched...