127 Rangoon Delta. It is getting busy. At Rangoon Airport, stopped for ½ hr. Beautiful garden - Bogevilla, orchids, etc. Crows, all black, with high pitched call. Airline hostess/hostess said Burma was a rich, undeveloped country - tin, teak wood, antimony, coal. Elephants used in handling teak. Wild elephants & tigers in north. Rice & others come into airstrip. Rice export is big industry. We crossed miles of rice fields, all brown. It is harvest time. Stacks of rice straw and rice seen. Some stacks had burned area around them, I suppose to protect against fires. Saw one field in flower. Numerous pagodas. Meandering streams. Teak wood logs along boulders/precipices. 5:50 pm. (local time) crossing Gulf of Martaban. So got dark, hence no further observations. Stayed in Rama Hotel but checked out next day. Too rich for me. The unit I exchange here is a "baht" or "tice" equal to about 5¢ . 20.25 baht = $1.00. @100 baht = $5.00. Jan. 28 Visited Dr. Pradiot Cheozakul (pronounced "Pradit Cheozakun", ? but it is the first name that counts here). He is Deputy Secretary-General, National Research Council, Bangkok. He has a B.Sc. (Chulalongkorn Univ., Bangkok), M.S. (Philippines) and Ph.D. (Cornell). At Cornell he got his degree in 1944 in organic chemistry with a minor in biochemistry. He is a slender man, perhaps in his 40s, he reminds me a little of Bob Kaplan.