Word: ceylonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public figures with presents, and tends zealously to his three jobs-at the bank, as director of fiscal policy for Thailand's Finance Ministry and as dean of the economics faculty at Thammasat University. Last month Puey quietly put together a formal alliance of central-bank governors from Ceylon, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines and South Viet Nam to plan regional economic projects, push for lower tariffs and pooled transport facilities...
...finances and talent. Occasionally a new nation admits that it just cannot afford the overhead; although it is a U.N. member, Gambia has no U.N. mission, told the Assembly it might not be able to afford the minimum annual U.N. club fee of $40,000. The Maldive Islands near Ceylon are so poor that the U.N. must forward their mail through the Maldivian Philatelic Agency, located in Manhattan down the street from Macy's. Rwanda President Gregoire Kayibanda's chief government handicap is even more serious: he has no telephone in his palace in Kigali. Periodically he sends...
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...