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...cardinals will raise the Sacred College to 103, highest total in history, and contribute further to the internationalization begun by Pius XII. The red hats will be bestowed on men from 21 countries, including Ceylon, Brazil, Upper Volta, Algeria, and the Union of South Africa. Only six of the appointments went to Italy, whose representation in the enlarged college will be reduced to an alltime...
Politics are normally wild in Ceylon. Last week they were even wilder than usual. The world's only woman head of government, Mrs. Solomen West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who has ruled Ceylon since 1960, when her husband was assassinated, felt upset when her election speech on the government-controlled radio was followed by the playing of Beethoven's funereal "Pathétique" Sonata. The radio director responsible was sent on "compulsory leave," with no reasons given. The opposition cracked that "classical music was undoubtedly too good a sequel" to Mrs. Bandaranaike's oratory, but jittery disk jockeys...
With a general election ahead, Ceylon's leader has every reason to be edgy. Mrs. Bandaranaike is contesting her late husband's old seat at Attana-galla, near Colombo, and while she may keep a place in Parliament, she may well lose her prime-ministership. Labor strikes and a binge of nationalization have crippled the economy. Last summer she tried to prop up her unstable government by forming an alliance with the island's Trotskyites, who received three Cabinet portfolios, including the Finance Ministry...
...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...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews and Peter Finch star in Paramount's 1954 Ceylon-based love triangle. Elephant Walk. Color...