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Banda won the election and became Prime Minister. In token of his gratitude, he took his Cabinet to Buddharakitha's temple for the customary postinaugural rites. He also gave the post of Minister of Health to Buddharakitha's intimate friend, the handsome widow Vimala Wijewardene, then 47. But when the high priest demanded a $6,000,000 government contract for the construction of a sugar factory and government concessions for a shipping company he planned to set up, Banda balked. Buddharakitha, who had reveled in his position as kingmaker, felt that he had been publicly humiliated. He decided...
...both labor and business to a revival of New Jersey's sagging industrial growth, but his main point was: "I am the only Republican who can win in November." This claim so infuriated organization Republicans that State Chairman Charles Erdman, an organization man, resigned rather than preserve even token neutrality...
...Khruschev's Cuban note said, to handle matters in such a way as to extinguish a conflagration in one area only to kindle fires in another. Cuba and Laos are parallel enough to reveal why it is in Khruschev's interest to move patiently; but by the same token, it is in the West's interest to drive as quickly as it can for a Laotian settlement, whatever happens in Cuba...
...whites and blacks alike. Stanleyville's white population, once 4,000, had dwindled to a hardy 250. Along the Avenue Wagenia, many of the shops are closed, and salt and sugar are not to be found. In Gizenga's interior plantation country, the few remaining whites pay token salaries to black workers to fight back the encroaching jungle, despite the fact that markets for their goods are well-nigh gone. Down at Luluabourg, once the prosperous commercial center of Kasai province, only two shops in the European section remain open-a jeweler and a hardware dealer. Everything else...
Dying Resistance. So far, only token compliance with the school desegregation law prevails. In the public schools of Alabama, Georgia. Mississippi and South Carolina, integration is nonexistent. In Louisiana, it consists of four little Negro girls in two New Orleans schools. Fighting case by case against "the long arm of judicial tyranny.'' extremists decry race "mongrelization" by the "Jew-backed N.A.A.C.P." Even moderates doublethink up evasions by "every legal means...