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...With its seamy mix of political power, billions of baht in booty, and high-society scandal, the Hangthong case is just the latest installment of a Tumwattana family saga that is Shakespearean in its tragic body count. Starting in the 1950s as owners of a slaughterhouse, the clan's patriarch, Arkom, and his wife, Suwapee, built a Bangkok-based real estate empire worth an estimated $400 million. But wealth didn't bring security to the family, which numbered 10 children. In 1966, Arkom was shot dead in what was believed to be a business dispute. The case remains unsolved. Thirteen...
...1950s The RSS forms the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) as its political wing. One of its leaders, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, becomes...
...thinking about the renovation of the Hark, which is taking place this summer,” Kagan said. “And I saw an old article about the Hark from the 1950s. In the photo, I noticed that there were people skating in Javis Field. I thought it was a great idea...
...argument dates back to the late 1950s, when the Supreme Court ruled that a civil rights group in Alabama could protect its members’ anonymity to shield them from retaliation at the hands of segregationists, Hafetz said...
...teenage girl in the 1957 movie soap opera Peyton Place; of an intestinal infection; in Santa Monica, Calif. Her blond beauty once rankled Marilyn Monroe (before letting Lange appear alongside her in Bus Stop, Monroe demanded that Lange's hair be dyed brown) and won her parts in such 1950s films as The Young Lions. But she was better known for her matronly, Emmy-winning role as a widow living in a haunted seaside home in TV's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir...