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Disregarding "Banda's" dying wish, a Ceylon judge last week sentenced Tal-duwe Somarama, 45, to death. But the trial had proved that Somarama had been only the triggerman; the instigator and chief plotter had been Mapitigama Buddharakitha, 41, high priest of the Kelaniya temple outside Colombo...
...This Is a Small Town." By 1944 Ho's hui had become too large and awkward to manage so informally. Ho formed Capi tal Investment Co., three years later made his first big killing at the expense of Castle & Cooke, one of Hawaii's conservative "big five" companies. He coolly raised Castle & Cooke's $800,000 bid for the 9,000 acres of a defunct sugar company on Oahu. Four years later, after parceling off only 40% of the land to small farmers, Ho had collected $3,000,000 more than he had paid for the acreage...
...gets no leverage into language; his words do not heighten or deepen or darken, are never laconic or poetic or terrible. Rather than quivering with a Whitmanesque "I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there." Lampell's lines come all too close to the sentimen tal and the stagy. The Wall is most effective-is indeed very effective-where it is most documentary, in brutal public scenes between Jews and Nazis. A rabbi doing a little ritual dance with a bride somehow evokes more than occurrences that freeze the blood...
...With rapid-fire, unorthodox moves, Latvia's Mikhail ("Misha") Tal, a 23-year-old philologist, flustered methodical Mikhail Botvinnik, 48, into worrying more about hidden traps than mounting his own attack, dethroned the Russian master as world chess champion by the score of 12½-8½ in their matches in Moscow to become the youngest titleholder of the 20th century...
...Tal's game is unorthodox, often appearing to the chess purist to fly in the face of reason. Against Botvinnik, he several times seemed to sacrifice a piece without apparent advantage. But he also achieved his primarily psychological purpose: that of confusing and spoiling the precise calculations of his opponent. Time and again, unexpected Tal moves forced Botvinnik to hesitate so long that he ran into trouble with his time limit, then rushed into making weak moves. Last weekend, with 13 games left to play, Tal led by 6½ to 4½-And in the ninth game...