Word: sirikit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young civil servants, who once shunned the northeast as a kind of Siberia, schools are being built and electric generators installed to provide power. Government information teams are criss- crossing the northeast stressing the advantages of Thai unity; even jazz buff King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his beautiful wife, Queen Sirikit, are for the first time journeying into the area...
...world première in Bangkok, The Ugly American seemed to misfire, but Star Marlon Brando, 39, scored a clean hit. Off-screen he suavely discussed Buddhism with Thailand's King Bhumibol and told beautiful Queen Sirikit, "I have heard many wonderful things about you, but they do not compare with what you really are." Good-Will Ambassador Brando was "genuinely overwhelmed by the gentle Thai people. Smiles are pretty hard to come by on Hollywood and Vine." But when a little old lady chewing betel nut asked what he did for a living, Marlon went right back...
Khan, Thailand's Queen Sirikit and Belgium's Queen Fabiola...
...Chitra Lada Palace, took out his 100-year-old handmade guitar (picked up in London for $112) and said he wanted to entertain the King of Thailand. He was invited to tea, where a group of high-ranking officials were stiffly collected. He started with some flamenco. Queen Sirikit asked if he wouldn't play something from his own country, like Danny Boy. He played Danny Boy as if it were a New London dairy air. The Thais loosened up and then went crazy for John Henry and Springfield Mountain. King Bhumibol could contain himself no longer. He produced...
Most queenly of the lot was Thailand's lovely Sirikit. Halsman, who has photographed more LIFE covers (90) than anyone else, believes that "to make a well-composed portrait, the photographer must control and direct his subject. This becomes rather difficult when the subject is a Queen!" When he left Sirikit, she told him: "It has been so nice that you did not make me at all nervous." Until that point, he thought he had been the only nervous...