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...fitting Old Hollywood style, he was "discovered" by Norma Shearer by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Shearer decided that Evans was the man to play her late husband, MGM Producer Irving Thalberg, in the film Man of a Thousand Faces. Evans has since been compared to Thai-berg many tunes, but as an actor he was to get nowhere...
Kennedy also expressed concern about the effect on public opinion of Vietnamese incursions into Laos--incursions minor compared to later ones by American-financed armies of Thai mercenaries and Meo tribesmen, but still hot stuff...
Tanaka's failure to mollify the Thai students does not augur well for the rest of his good-will mission in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. His first stop had been in Manila and had gone with deceptive smoothness. That was largely due to a state of martial law that prevented any anti-Japanese outbursts and the eagerness of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos for injections of more Japanese capital. But during the rest of his itinerary, Tanaka will be faced with the threat of more anti-Japanese demonstrations. Moreover, Tanaka can scarcely assure his Southeast Asian trading partners of more...
...Thai students last week also found time for a demonstration against the U.S. It was sparked by reports in three Thai newspapers that an American CIA agent had sent Premier Sanya a fake letter purporting to be from a Communist insurgent leader in Northeast Thailand and offering a cease-fire in return for autonomy in rebel-held areas. The clumsy gambit, apparently, was to sow disillusion among insurgents by making them believe that their leaders were willing to settle for less than victory over the whole country. The demonstrators demanded the expulsion of Ambassador William R. Kinter; he remained...
Producer Philip Garvin, 26, first immersed himself in American religion while photographing a book on the Lubavitchers. Later, after discovering Thai Buddhism during a stay abroad, he decided to investigate spirituality in the U.S. and started a pilot film on the California Pentecostal church. Station WGBH in Boston heard of his work and financed the rest of the pilot. Foundations aided the others. Garvin took pains to let the people themselves tell the story; there is no narration. Thus the series is pithy and personal, but some basic journalistic questions-a number of important whos, whats, wheres and hows...