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Professor Colin Clark of Oxford, former economic advisor to the governments of India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Australia, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Kirkland House JCR on "African Socialism and the Economics of Underdeveloped Nations...
Taped-On Diamonds. It was a routine police check that finally caught Walcott. Using a British passport in the name of Barry Phillips Charles Comyn, Walcott and an accomplice apparently went to India last month by sea and rail from Ceylon and registered at a fashionable Bombay hotel. A detective questioning the hotel staff about foreign guests learned that the two men often made person-to-person calls to Colombo. The name they asked for, remembered the detective, belonged to Walcott's contact man there...
Historical Heroine. Probably no woman in history has ever assumed such responsibility as now rests on Indira Gandhi. In fact, only one other woman in modern times has ever headed a national government. She is Ceylon's Madame Sirima Bandaranaike, who was elected the year after her Prime Minister husband was assassinated. Yet the idea of a woman Prime Minister strikes outsiders as more curious than it does most Indians...
...mostly Buddhist Ceylon last week, Sunday became just another working day. By act of Parliament, stores and government offices will henceforth close each month on four Buddhist feasts called poya days, corresponding roughly to the phases of the moon. The change amounts to a rejection of the custom of Sunday observance that has been standard in Ceylon since 1815, when the island was a British colony. But it does not really bespeak a trend; elsewhere, surprisingly, Sunday is gaining favor, even among countries that have religious reasons for preferring another...
...palm-topped flyspeck in the Indian Ocean 1,100 miles southwest of Ceylon, Diego Garcia is the first in a series of four strategically located islets that may ultimately buttress Britain's "farflung battle line" of bases (see map). Along with the Seychelle atolls of Aldabra (pop. 100), Farquhar (172) and Des Roches (112), Diego Garcia & Co. will make up a new colony called the British Indian Ocean Territory. Their cost to Britain: $8,400,000 in remuneration for commercial facilities, mainly copra sheds and fishing fleets...