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Winning a revolution is very much like waking up with a bad hangover. All of the glorious intoxication is gone, and the feeling of superhuman power is replaced by the dull ache of responsibility. Many Asian lands-Burma, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Korea, Ceylon-are by now some ten years into the grey morning-after of independence, and political leaders who had once been dashing conspirators and heroic guerrilla captains have become aging politicians, surrounded by corruption, inefficiency and rivalry. All but the most obtuse are ready to admit that throwing out the imperialists was the easiest part of their...
...rising. Its volume jumped from $1.5 billion in 1946 to $8.25 billion last year; its exports of industrial equipment have increased twentyfold. Today the Soviet Union has trade agreements with some 31 countries outside the Iron Curtain, and in the last year alone added Morocco, Tunisia, Cambodia, Japan and Ceylon to its list...
Work on Kwai began late in 1956. Three times Alec had refused the part ("a dreary, unsympathetic man"), and he arrived on location in Ceylon with deep misgivings. They deepened when Director Lean informed him casually that he had really wanted Charles Laughton for the part. Alec brooded, and a couple of days later tried to quit. Lean talked him out of it. "Lean!" snarls one of the crew. "That bloody perfectionist! He shot 30 seconds of film a day and then sat on a rock and stared at his goddam bridge.'' Alec tried to quit again. Lean...
...Khyber Pass tribal leaders draped garlands around Macmillan's neck, gave him the traditional Pathan tribesman's greeting: "Welcome; come in peace." In Ceylon, which has been busily ejecting Britain from its old military bases, even Macmillan was amazed at the warmth of his welcome from crowds that lined the streets as he passed. Between speeches in Australia, the visitor shed his necktie and distributed the steaks in person at a Queensland sheep-station barbecue. In Melbourne he went out of his way to shake hands with policemen, housewives, schoolchildren and members of his honor guard. "A triumph...
...here, Banda believes in conflict. He insisted on accepting a U.S. firm's bid for a TVA-like development of their largest river, the Mahaweli. And despite its assiduous courtship of the Communists, Banda's government still lets the Voice of America operate a relay station in Ceylon for its Asian broadcasts...