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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having had their fill of Philip, right-wing ministers resolved to boycott Cabinet meetings until he was sacked. Bandaranaike agreed to clip Gunawardena's wings by taking from him three of his ministry's four departments. Gunawardena resigned, taking with him into opposition three other ministers. Bandaranaike was left with a parliamentary minority of 47 out of 99 seats, and should have tumbled from office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: Jealousy Among the Marxists | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Television Music Hall into his own show, became Britain's top-rated comedian. An even more striking one-shot: his decision to ask his agent to bring some TV films to Perry Como, who as producer of Berle's show was brooding about how to fill Berle's summer air time. Assured of employment until October at a fat U.S. TV salary. Entertainer King might even be able to cash in on the craze for westerns. His two-year-old daughter, as a result of his interest in Indian lore, is named Cheyenne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Jack Tati | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Dose for News. Unlike their Western counterparts, Soviet journalists need pay scant attention to the significant events of the day. The kind of stories that fill U.S. newspapers-including international tensions, local crime and disasters-are almost totally ignored unless they make a party-line point. Pravda's Satyukov stopped the presses only twice this year, once to insert a dispatch from the Russian news agency Tass covering U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther's phony "March of the Unemployed" on Washington (TIME, March 2), once to report Konrad Adenauer's decision to yield the West German chancellorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Information Is Not Truth | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...stop at the plant. Bunky hurried over-and found the car in several thousand pieces. "It took me a couple of months to assemble the darn thing," he says, "but I finally got it running." THE challenge turned him into a car bug. It also made him determined to fill his father's oversized boots. A broad- shouldered (185 Ibs., 6 ft.), soft-spoken young man, Knudsen had the single-minded drive of a piston. He worked in auto plants in summer, went to Dartmouth, then to M.I.T. ('36) for his degree in engineering. After several years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chip Off the Old Engine Block | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...squad. Although Gallwey was playing ahead of him at the end of the year, Bowditch's victory in the New England's may well have established him as next year's number one. As for the two gaps in the top six, the most likely candidates to fill them are freshmen Joram Piatigorsky and Mark Woodbury and sophomores Bob Schwartzman and Pete Smith...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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