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Those moviegoers who came to know and love Yul Brynner as the King of Siam in the film The King and I will be pleased to find him unchanged in his role of Dmitri in The Brothers Karamazov. His head is still bald; he still struggles with his emotions with the expressionless face of a man who has just sat through an elementary Hum. lecture; and his mien while watching Maria Schell (Grushenka) shake voluptuously through a rather fiery dance sequence in a Russian-style sin-den is not unlike the beaming countenance he displayed while greeting his numerous children...
Though a rebel in some respects, Roosevelt did not turn his back on things social. He was impressed enough to write home once: "THE CROWN PRINCE OF SIAM was at the game, and came to the FLY after it for some 'afternoon tea,' i.e. a little champagne!" And while heading the CRIMSON, he refused to stop running the list of men who made the various clubs. (The next year's editors stopped "that concession to snobbery.") Democratic though he was, he remained a gentleman in the Roosevelt tradition...
...Bangkok, the army radio broadcast frantic appeals for Pibul to surrender. "Please report, please report as soon as possible," said the military announcers. But Pibul, accompanied only by a military aide, was already speeding south at the wheel of his Thunderbird. Somewhere along the coast of the Gulf of Siam, Pibul and his aide boarded a navy LCM manned by his personal guards. Three days later Pibul and a skeleton personal staff disembarked some 200 miles away at the Cambodian seaside resort of Kep. On hand to meet him was a covey of Cambodian officials to tell...
Past the mint-and custard-colored roofs of Pnompenh's lacquered palaces, a black Lincoln limousine sped south, bound for the rambling Cambodian seaside resort of Kep, 90 miles away by the green waters of the Gulf of Siam. Inside the big car, lonely and unhappy, sat cherub-faced Norodom Sihanouk, who gave up his throne to serve as Premier and had already resigned the premiership three times in less than two years. Behind him in Pnompenh Prince Sihanouk left with his father, King Suramarit, a statement of his intention to resign for the fourth time...
...York City's East River, the U.N. General Assembly opened its eleventh regular session by admitting three new nations -Morocco. Tunisia and the Sudan-and formally welcoming the 16 other new members* hastily admitted in the closing days of the 1955 session. The Assembly's new president. Siam's Prince Wan Waithayakon. grandson of King Rama IV of The King and I, pointed out the significance of these admissions: "The increasing importance of Asia and Africa." In today's 79-nation U.N.. the balance of voting power has shifted from the 20 Latin American republics...