Word: thai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteered four years ago to become unpaid chairman of Malayan Airways Ltd. To revive the rundown line, Loke ordered a fleet of Fokker F-27s to replace decrepit DC-3s and leased a BOAC Comet. This week, in cooperation with Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways and Thai International, Malayan will begin to offer 58 weekly flights between major Southeast Asian cities. Unlike Loke's other winged friends, Malayan has proved a profitable hobby, last year had pre-tax earnings of $490,000 on revenues of $15 million...
...Nguyen Thai, former director of the Vietnam Press Bureau at Saigon, has studied in America before. He has an M.A. from Cornell and was working on a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan this year...
...wrong, Thailand replied hotly, pointing out that the temple would never even have been found but for the explorations of Thai Prince Sanphasit in 1899. What is more, argued the Thais, the temple faces north; Cambodians have to use the back door, whereas Thai pilgrims use the stairs that rise to the front entrance...
...When Prince Sihanouk heard the good news, he announced that he would shave his head and maintain a thanksgiving vigil for seven days and nights. But Thailand's Marshal Sarit summoned his military commanders, ordered reinforcements to the area of the temple, which at the moment is under Thai control. Thailand even ordered its diplomats to boycott the meetings of SEATO...
Died. Somdej Pra Ariyawongsakhatayana (means Nobly descended and accomplished in intelligence), 74, Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, spiritual leader of 25 million Thai Buddhists, who in 1961 became the first Patriarch to visit the U.S.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bangkok...