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...Roebling), who clearly hopes to stay on for free. Craftily suspicious of freeloaders, Flora keeps the handsome young man at one villa's distance while she rifles his field pack to learn that he is 34 and constructs mobiles. A witchy visitor of Flora's vintage, Vera Ridgeway Condotti (Mildred Dunnock), warns her that Chris has been nicknamed "Angel of Death," having been the questionable companion of several old ladies at the time of their demise. Bent on one last fleshly fling, Flora decides to seduce Chris...
...Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 46, has headed Ceylon's government for two years, since the assassination of her Prime Minister husband, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike. Tough-minded, multilingual Frances Elizabeth Willis, 63, first career woman diplomat in the U.S. to achieve ambassadorial rank, was serving in the Oslo embassy when President Kennedy decided last year that the lady Prime Minister and the lady diplomat might get along famously...
...years ago, Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike bowed respectfully before a Buddhist monk among the crowd of petitioners gathered on his veranda, in return got a blast of four bullets in his body. He clung to life long enough to utter a last request. "I appeal to all concerned to show compassion to this man and not to try and wreak vengeance on him," he said, and died...
...near rebellion over the government's proclamation of Sinhala, the language spoken by the 6,750,000-strong Buddhist majority, as the official tongue of the land. Although the controversial "Sinhala Only" law was passed in 1956 under the administration of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Bias Bandaranaike, it was his energetic widow Sirimavo who first set out to enforce it early this year. In the Northern and Eastern provinces where the Tamils are concentrated, government offices were picketed, government vehicles blocked by Tamils lying down in the roadways before them. With local administration paralyzed, the Tamils...
Fanatic Monk. Prime Minister Mrs. Bandaranaike took charge of Ceylon's destinies last summer after an election campaign largely given over to tearful eulogies of her much-loved husband, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who, after three years as Prime Minister, was assassinated in 1959 by a fanatic Buddhist monk. The widow brought to her job a mystical devotion to the vaguely left-wing ideals of her slain husband, as well as a deep Buddhist piety, personal honesty and considerable intelligence. She has also proved surprisingly tough, refusing to back down in the face of opposition, and ruthlessly whipping...