THAILAND: Upward & Onward

Recent directives of Thailand's Office of National Culture: 1) tables and chairs should be used when dining; 2) unhappy husbands will please divorce their wives instead of beating them. Last week the battle for culture hammered at a new objective: Bangkok Radio instructed the Thai people to "stop sitting on sidewalks; it is not sanitary and shows a weakness of the mind."

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