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...Heinz Nordhoff is not yet satisfied. Last week, just before taking off on a trip to the Far East to check on car sales in India, Indonesia, Siam and Ceylon, Nordhoff made a last-minute inspection of Volkswagen's third production line at Wolfsburg, now coming into production. It will boost output from 750 to 1,000 cars a day. On top of that, a new distributor-owned assembly plant in Belgium (needed because of import restrictions) this week started up. And Australia, which last week got its first Volkswagen-the 200,000th exported since 1947-will soon have...
...designed a new Mother Hubbard for women to wear; he forced the men to elect women to the legislature; he built an elaborate handicraft shop, despite the fact that rarely more than a half dozen tourists a year visit the isolated island chain (pop. 90,000) southwest of Ceylon...
...President did nothing about a growing food shortage in the islands, and he went back to his old habits of taking long trips to visit Ceylon, or to see his dentist twice a year (in London). On top of that, the President was at least as cruel and despotic as any sultan, shouting orders, demanding cringing obedience from even his highest aides, punishing minor offenses with as many as 100 lashes, and meting out to more serious offenders that most ancient and unrepublican of sentences-the lopping off of both hands...
...Amin Didi's cousins, Ibrahim Mohammed Didi and Ibrahim Ali Didi, quietly plucked the President out of his palatial residence one night and imprisoned him on the nearby island of Doonidu. The two cousins installed themselves in charge. Piece by piece, some details of the bloodless coup reached Ceylon. The deposed President, said Ibrahim Mohammed, was still being kept under guard on Doonidu "for safekeeping"; the main islands apparently were thick with people who wanted to chop Amin Didi's hands off, preferably at the neck. Also, added Ibrahim Mohammed, the people were beginning to long...
Despite the U.N. ban on shipping strategic materials to Red China, the British Dominion of Ceylon (not a member of the U.N.) 14 months ago negotiated an agreement with Red China to trade rubber for rice. Last week, after Peking enthusiastically offered to follow up its trade envoys with a good-will mission, new Premier Sir John Kotalawala made clear that the Communists are welcome in Ceylon's counting room, but not in its parlor. "I have sent a reply to the Chinese reminding them we have a trade agreement and to let our relations remain that...