Word: ceylon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sukarno flew into Ceylon with the cheers of Syrian demonstrators ("Long Live the Lion of Indonesia") still ringing in his gratified ears, anti-Communist politicians and dissident army commanders of the outlying provinces met to muster their forces and concert their plans at the Central Sumatran capital of Padang. The conferences began some three weeks ago in deepest secrecy. Summoned by shrewd, stocky Colonel Maludin Simbolon, the dissident commanders flew in from the Celebes and South Sumatra. The officers are mostly young colonels, and all are anti-Communists who run their areas with cool efficiency and a minimum of corruption...
DANCING may seem a sin to some Christians, but in Asia it is still what it always was - a way of worship. In six pages of color, TIME looks at the religious dancers of the East, their ups (in Ceylon) and their downs (in India). See RELIGION. Dancing for the Gods...
...drums (the drummers work in relays) to the Burmese Zat Pwé orchestra of a dozen varied instruments-teakwood xylophones, ivory horns, cymbals, Whether the dances tell stories of the gods, as do the Kathakali, seek to divine answers, like Burma's spirit dancers, or combat evil, like Ceylon's Devil dancers, the worshipers of the East continue Siva's sacred swaying...
...squads (usually four men), each of which can spray about 10,000 houses a year with guns the size of a large fire extinguisher. In Mexico, 3,500,000 houses have been sprayed. The program is well along in Central America, coastal Ecuador and Peru, Formosa, Swaziland and Ceylon. It is finished in northern Venezuela, several Caribbean islands and parts of Argentina. Soon to feel the fine spray of DDT are Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Burma, the Philippines...
...CEYLON. Since April 1956, when Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike's left-trending government came to power, repeated threats of nationalization have dried up most sources of private capital, foreign and local. In partial compensation, Ceylon has got $20 million from the Soviet bloc, the great bulk of it a grant from Communist China, which is hungry for Ceylon's rubber. Recently a 16-man Soviet delegation came to Colombo to talk over a proposed Soviet credit to finance oil prospecting, expansion of Ceylon's sugar and textile industries and construction of hydroelectric projects. Prospects that the Soviet...