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...really much shorter in Siamese" was the modest comment of Kaisui Nimmanahaeminda I G.B., of Chiengmai, Siam, possessor of the longest surname in Harvard University, when questioned about his astounding monicker in his room at the Business School yesterday...
...expressed surprise that no one in the whole University had a name longer than he. "Why, that's nothing--look at this" he said, holding up a whole page of Siamese script for the interviewer to puruse. "That's the name and titles of King Prajahdipok, former ruler of Siam. A whole page--and mine is a more 15 letters...
Over tow hundred foreign students registered for instruction in the University this year, making up one of the largest foreign delegations in its history. Representatives from as widely spread spots as Iran and Siam and such small countries as Luxembourg and Liechtenstein are notable...
...gentlemen whose companies mined this tin were agreeing to extend for five years the cartel by which world tin production is determined. Set for the first quarter of 1937 were production quotas at what the International Tin Committee calls "standard 100%," practically identical with 1929 production (192,000 tons). Siam, which nearly broke up the agreement last year by demanding a bigger quota, came into line with an allotment of 18,000 tons yearly. Other annual quotas: Britain's Malay Peninsula, 71,940 tons; Britain's Nigeria, 10,890 tons; Dutch East Indies, 36,330 tons; Bolivia...
Special attention will be paid to the behavior and physical structure of gibbons, which live in great clans in the jungles of northern Siam. There is strong evidence that man and other higher primates have evolved from a gibbonoid stock, and therefore the gibbon becomes a key animal in the interpretation of man's social and physical evolution...