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Speaking to a jampacked rally at Kalutara, south of the capital city of Colombo, greying, bespectacled Senanayake wore a green shirt (his party color) and gripped an elephant tusk (the elephant is his party emblem). He cried, "We must beat this government. If it continues, it will spell disaster for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ceylon: Madame's Exit | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

Elections are not easy in the Congo. To reach the 80% of the population, itinerant polling officers will have to haul the ballot boxes from hamlet to hamlet by pirogue and dugout canoe, or by land along elephant tracks, winding jungle paths and narrow bush trails. Moreover, the rebels have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Tshombe's Election Campaign | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

Compared to elephant hunting in the jungles of Mysore or bullfighting in Toledo, it should have been child's play. Confidently the vacationing Shah of Iran, 45, stepped up to the line in a Cambridgeshire pub and lofted three darts at the board. Kerplop, kerplop, two flew wide and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 19, 1965 | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

Almost everywhere that Bottomley was taken, the harangues continued. He tangled with 100 labor leaders (mostly white) in Salisbury's Unity House, was assailed by 50 farmers (all white) at an experimental farm south of Zambezi Escarpment. At an elephant barbecue on the shores of Lake Kariba, while maidens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: Independence at 5 O'Clock? | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

Sir: The eagle in the air and the whale in the sea cannot conquer the elephant in the jungle. Our overwhelming air and naval supremacy, even our bomb, cannot prevail over China's 700 million people. China warns it will not sit idly by if we attack, and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 26, 1965 | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

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