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...weeping widow of a much-loved man. Solomon West Ridgeway Bias Bandaranaike, known to all Ceylon as "Banda," who ruled Ceylon for three years as a benevolently bumbling leftist, then was shot to death last September by a Buddhist monk. When elections were called for March, the hack politicians of Banda's Sri Lanka Freedom Party paraded his widow about the country not as a candidate but as a figurehead, and backed her up with the dead man's recorded speeches. Sri Lanka nonetheless managed to get only enough seats to splinter the House of Representatives so that...
...Shagamu seemed hardly the place to find 15 fresh-faced American college students. But there they were last week, and not snapping pictures of the natives from an air-conditioned bus. Up at 6 every morning, boys and girls spent the long days chopping trees and shoveling dirt to hack out a road from a school to a chapel back in the bush. In credulous Africans followed them everywhere; a dozen English-speaking Nigerian students worked beside them, jabbering questions about life in the U.S. Asked if religion was anything of an issue among the students, one Moslem student exclaimed...
...lively minor cult on college campuses. Much of his new and far inferior book takes place in Italy, south of Rome, but the characters and attitudes are standard sub-Mason-Dixon. The two central figures are Mason Flagg, a rich neurotic dilettante, and Cass Kinsolving, an alcoholic hack painter. The plot, insofar as there is one, advances at a glacial pace towards the question of what Flagg and Kinsolving had to do with the brutal sex-murder of an Italian peasant girl...
...people in the Susitna valley, the last whines of winter had special meaning: it was just a year since 37 pioneers from Michigan-the well-publicized "Fifty-Niners"-arrived in the pioneer country to hack out a new life for themselves (TIME, May 11). Some of their number have gone home discouraged; others have moved to the cities; a few staked out homesteads in other valleys. Along the Susitna remained only 13 undismayed pioneers and their children...
...quarter results, but we've got our finger on the problem and we're doing something about it. I don't see any justification for the sort of gossip that you pick up on Wall Street that indicates that Raytheon is going to hell in a hack...