Word: sirikit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Central China. Travelers quickly carried it to Hong Kong, where it was labeled "Mao flu" as 500,000 Crown Colony residents were infected. The worldwide epidemic had begun (TIME, Sept. 27). The flu spread to Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan and Thailand, where King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit were among those affected. Authorities in the Soviet Union started vaccinating between 50% and 70% of Russia's urban population...
...high point of her Thai sojourn, an occasion that brought together two of the world's best-dressed women, was a royal dinner for 180 given by King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit. Jackie wore a long white evening gown elaborately stitched in gold, the beautiful queen a traditional gown of Thai embroidered silk in yellow with a matching sabai, or stole. After dinner, the King and Queen suggested that they take a little walk. Knowing that Jackie particularly wanted to see the temple of the Emerald Buddha, the King had ordered the whole palace and temple grounds illuminated. Lights...
Arriving in Manhattan to commence a three-week trip through the U.S. and Canada, Thailand's King Bhumibol, 39, and his lustrous Queen Sirikit, 34, paid a first call at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the museum's trustees and Time Inc. jointly sponsored a reception attended by some 700 members of New York's business, publishing and art communities. By happy coincidence, the museum was exhibiting a 5,000-year panorama of royal objets d'art and artifacts entitled "In the Presence of Kings," to which the young monarch presented an exquisite 18th century...
Ever since the Paris house of Balmain made her wedding dress 17 years ago, Thailand's Queen Sirikit has been true to the designer in her fashion. The results have been dazzling for both. For six years, the Queen was listed among the world's ten best-dressed women. For his part, Balmain now picks up about $500,000 in annual business from Sirikit, a fact that rankles the house of Dior deeply. Last week, when Sirikit and King Bhumibol paid a state visit to the Shah of Iran and Empress Farah Diba, Dior dispatched...
...hats are back on top is that there is suddenly much less hair underneath. Short hair cuts, among them what Parisians call le Farrow and I'Artichaut, are replacing the elaborate bouffant hairdos that made hats hard to wear. Paris' Alexandre has already shorn Elizabeth Taylor, Queen Sirikit of Thailand, Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. And while Elsa Martinelli, Sophia Loren and Jean Shrimpton have so far resisted the shears, they are all tucking their hair under short wigs to achieve a similar effect. Manhattan's Kenneth, who gained fame as the architect of Jackie Kennedy...