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...Federal Party, which represents the Tamil-speaking minority who work the island's tea plantations. Thousands of leftists swarmed in the road outside Temple Trees, the Prime Minister's official residence, shouting, "Victory!" and "Don't resign!" At the insistence of her Marxist Cabinet ministers, the buxom Prime Minister stoutly clung to power, even after Governor General William Gopallawa asked her to quit. But at last she caved in, and victory went to Dudley Senanayake after midnight of the third day. Wreathed in smiles, he called on the Governor General, bearing a letter of endorsement from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ceylon: Madame's Exit | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...thief of the lot. Her bulging eyes, arched body, piercing voice, and hilariously affected manner make her the center of attention even when she is saying nothing. She is blustering one moment, cooing the next all the time revelling in her over-played comedy. Judith Press plays a fiery, buxom Lucy with the same touch of humor...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: The Beggar's Opera | 3/27/1965 | See Source »

...Bandaranaike, who stayed on as caretaker chief of the government, denounced the defection as a "stab in the back." De Silva explained that he felt she "was going to betray Ceylon to the Marxists." Ceylon's influential Buddhist monks, alarmed by the Marxist infiltration, began turning against the buxom Prime Minister. They particularly denounced a proposal, put forward by the Communists in the government, to permit the legal tapping of coconut trees and turn the sap into toddy, thus heading off illicit bootlegging and bringing new revenue into the treasury. When Mrs. Bandaranaike tried to win back the monks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ceylon: Music to Vote By | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...buxom waytress greets the guest, with complyments...

Author: By William H. Smock, | Title: Ballade | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...trade mates-often so explicitly that the film was banned in Paris, of all places. What seemed objectionable to the family-minded French was dragging the children along as witnesses. Little eyes pop, come Sunday morning, when an unhappy husband steals down to the beach to attack a blonde, buxom nursemaid while she tends her flock. Inexplicably, this departure from form jolts the wife swappers into a moment of sober self-appraisal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scandinavian Sindrome | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

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