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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"I shall insist on discipline with a capital D," declared Wijayananda Dahanayake when he became Prime Minister of Ceylon after the assassination of his predecessor, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. But soon Dahanayake was surrounded by chaos with a capital C. Hardly had Bandaranaike been buried when dark rumors spread that colleagues of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: Short Term | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

The Canada Temperance Act, passed by Parliament in 1878, is memorable largely because it has managed to survive so long. Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, championed it only to prove a constitutional point-that such an important responsibility was a federal rather than a provincial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: End of the Anti-Saloon Act | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

The Habit Is Everything. As general manager of the RCA Victor Record Division of the Radio Corporation of America, George Marek, 57, ranks as the world's biggest musical merchandiser. In the fiercely competitive, $400 million (retail) record market, Victor claims 25% of total sales. On the Christmas-trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Compleat Diskman | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Shy, scholarly George Marek got the music habit early. The son of a Viennese dentist, he haunted the Vienna Opera as a child, later became a regular standee at the Metropolitan Opera after his parents sent him to the U.S. at the age of 17 to make his fortune. For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Compleat Diskman | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

But one reality collides with another: Atlanta may face an even worse segregation crisis than Little Rock's. Under Georgia law, integration in a single school automatically shuts down the entire local system; nonfederal funds are cut off. Obvious solution is amending the law to allow integration in Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reality in Atlanta | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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