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...Indochinese peninsula relapsed into their old hedonist ways. Though Laos is practically roadless, well-to-do Laotians bought Mercedes cars and Italian scooters (with U.S. and French aid), built showy riverside houses, idled their days away in the pagoda gardens listening to Panpipe music and watching the graceful Thai dances. But a peck of trouble is in store for the pleasure-loving Laotians...
...more sophisticated medical treatments than massage, bamboo cupping or tiger balm, they were reluctant to wash the dirt off a wound. Some had shaved their heads, refused to bathe, or relied on other traditional "remedies." But all wanted the reputedly powerful medicines from the West. Said a Thai nurse: "When you start a distribution of medicine, everybody must get something or they feel offended...
Having foregone his songwriting, saxophone-tootling and other worldly pleasures for 15 days, Thailand's young (28) King Phumiphon Adundet this week wound up his term as a Buddhist monk (TIME, Sept. 24). In keeping with the royal tradition that a Thai king should spend some time as a priest (like any devout male commoner). Phumiphon, saffron-robed, barefoot and shaven-pated, had turned his kingdom into the hands of Queen Sirikit, 24, who acted as regent during the King's religious furlough...
...Japan U.S. teachers have become so popular that some schools have had to put a ceiling on the number of students they can have. In Thailand an American found that English was being taught strictly by rote, introduced songs and games that, as her Thai colleagues admitted, got amazing results...
...recent dinner party Ambassador Bishop became so enraged with a prominent Thai that he shouted: "I don't care if you all go behind the Bamboo Curtain!" Max Bishop has a carrying voice, and its echoes are being heard with concern in Washington...