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Half a Loaf. The big drug companies have found an ally in Italy's Minister of Industry and Commerce Emilio Colombo. 42, who has had a bill drawn up that would provide full patent protection for chemical processes in Italy. But under the leadership of Deputy Antonio Cremisini, a Milan drugmaker whose own firm, I.B.I., is among those accused by Cyanamid of pirating its processes, the small Italian companies are putting up an effective political fight to write into the bill an amendment that would guarantee them the right to produce under license any new drug developed...
Poker Style. The son of a Colorado rancher, Thompson joined the Foreign Service in 1929 (as vice consul in Colombo, Ceylon), first went to Russia in the Stalin era as second secretary of the U.S. embassy during World War II. That is when he learned fluent Russian and developed his methodical, meticulous, unruffled diplomatic style. As ambassador, he kept this style both at the conference and at the card table; in a running poker game with him, some resident U.S. correspondents lost $300-$400 a session...
...tactful and sincere at the same time." Mrs. Bandaranaike, who confides that Ceylon's fortunes are in the hands of "angels and my late husband," has vigorously assisted the heavenly host by nationalizing Roman Catholic schools, the Bank of Ceylon, transport services, life insurance and the Port of Colombo. Last week the Prime Minister touched off one of the biggest government crises since she took office by announcing a 25% cut in the rice ration. In yet another attempt to ease Ceylon's formidable economic woes, her government last April seized almost 200 gas stations and oil depots...
...Colombo last week, a Buddhist monk and herbalist named Talduwe Somarama mounted a prison scaffold and was hanged. Somarama's crime: the 1959 assassination of Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon W. R. D. Bandaranaike. In a confession he later retracted, Somarama said he committed the deed because the Prime Minister favored Western medical techniques over Oriental herb medicine. Prison officials reported that 24 hours before he was hanged, Somarama had himself baptized a Christian so that he could ask God for the forgiveness of sin that cannot be found in the Buddhist religion...
...Gresmann, political editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg, will discuss the issues and personalities in the upcoming Brandt-Adenauer election campaign. Other speakers will be Aslam Siddiqi, Chief Information Officer of Pakistan (on the "Ideology, Security, and Development of Pakistan"), and Duraiswamy Rajendra, Deputy Comissioner of Local Government in Colombo (on "The politics of Evolution" in Ceylon...