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Thailand's ex-Premier P. Pibulsonggram, 63, onetime dictatorial Thai field marshal who was booted from power in 1957, was ordained as a Buddhist monk in Bodh Gaya, India. Father of six grown children, Pibulsonggram took an oath of celibacy before a golden image of Buddha. In keeping with Buddhist doctrine, he was not required to divorce his devoted wife, Mme. La-iad, a renowned feminist...
...From the President, the order would be flashed to SAC headquarters in Omaha, which would relay it to the U.S. officer in Britain in command of U.S. warheads. From the Prime Minister, a parallel order would go to Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Cross, commander of the Thor squadrons. Air Marshal Cross would transmit the order to each Thor station. The R.A.F. officer, inserting his key in the lower slot, would start the fully automatic 15-minute countdown to nuclear...
...last week a refreshing note came from an unexpected quarter. Said Thailand's Premier Sarit Thanarat to reporters: "Thailand is the pivot of the free-world alliance in Asia. If one of our neighbors becomes dominated by Communists, rocket bases will be an absolute necessity." Tough Field Marshal Sarit named no names, but his message was obviously meant for Laos and, especially, Cambodia, whose Prince Sihanouk has been busily courting the Chinese Communists...
Died. Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, ' 74, unrepentant Nazi, one of Hitler's top military strategists and his last commander in chief in the West; of heart disease; in Bad Nauheim, Germany. A career soldier and World War I pilot, Kesselring developed the combined ground-air attack strategy that was the key to early Nazi victories, at war's start commanded a single air fleet in Poland, later bossed all German air forces in North Africa and took charge of the Mediterranean theater in the slow retreat up the boot of Italy. Condemned to die by the British...
...sister Cecile, 21. Together they had made a remarkable record. Greg had not only been chosen one of Harvard's two student commencement orators, the first Negro so honored, but was also graduating magna cum laude, while Cecile (cum laude) was elected Radcliffe class president and senior-class marshal...