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During her first ten months in office as the world's first woman Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 45, has a record of more trouble than accomplishment. She has alarmed foreign investors with continual threats to nationalize foreign oil companies, and foreign diplomats by her close relations with the Communists and Trotskyites who supported her election. She dismayed the island's 800,000 Roman Catholics by nationalizing their schools. Last week she had to call out the army before she could quell the latest wave of opposition...
...Ceylon: Frances Elizabeth Willis. 60, currently Ambassador to Norway. Stanford Ph.D. ('23) Frances Willis was the Foreign Service's first career woman to become an ambassador (to Switzerland in 1953), will find in Ceylon another woman who has risen high in a normally male domain: Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgway Bias Bandaranaike, who has exhibited a mind of her own in leading Ceylon down the neutralist path...
...green island set in a blue sea, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 44, the world's first and only female Prime Minister, was plunged deep in political strife...
Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized-i.e., confiscated-the Egyptian press; and in Ceylon, a self-styled democracy, newly elected Prime Minister Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike threatened to seize the country's two largest news paper groups for opposing her during the campaign. Of 17 new African states, just one - Nigeria - was born with a free press...
...Petroles-cut their posted crude-oil prices, following the lead of Esso Export Corp. ¶Under pressure from price cuts in India (TIME, Aug. 22), British and U.S. companies reduced bulk prices on petroleum products in Pakistan by an average 7%. ¶Ceylon's Prime Minister Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, not to be left out, summoned three Western oil companies in Colombo to a meeting at which the government will ask for further price reductions on gasoline, on top of a recent gas price...