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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under cover of U.S., British and royal Thai jets, 6,000 U.S. soldiers rained down on Bangkok's Don Muang airport by parachute before the awed eyes of 250.000 Thailanders. Most impressive unprogrammed sight: the rescue in mid-air by one paratrooper of a comrade who jumped in the same stick but whose chute failed to open. Popeyed, rice farmers saw field guns and trucks larger than their houses drop from the sky. U.S. marines, landing from 30 helicopters, fought a mock battle against "enemy" strongpoints with flamethrowers and satchel charges...
...French part of the city. It was grimly silent. Shops were closed, balconies draped with black "for mourning"; French men and women stonily turned their backs as his car swept by. A crowd was waiting for him at the war memorial in the city's center. At sight of the Premier, it broke into an angry roar. "Mollet to the lamppost!" rose the shout, and the crowd became...
...knew him, had simply no choice but to marry. It was either marriage to a suitable princess by order of his father George III, or something very like debtors' prison. With his elegantly tailored back to the wall, Prinney picked Caroline of Brunswick, his father's niece, sight unseen. He believed her to be the lesser of two evils-the other being any one of his mother's relatives whom he had seen. The Prince's first glance at the buxom Princess revealed his mistake...
...locks herself up in her Gulf Coast shack and spends three years worshipping his memory and his ashes, which she keeps in an urn in the living room. But three years is a long wait for a woman of Sicilian temperament, and the end of her seclusion is in sight when she finds out that her lamented spouse had been keeping other company. So when a bachelor with the body of her husband but "the face of a clown" walks into Serafina's house, the result is inevitable...
...keeps it out of sight...