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...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 established their own postal service, defiantly prepared...
...this threat to the island's basic economy, Widow Bandaranaike acted swiftly. She went on the radio, declared that "the nation cannot be held to ransom by threats," ordered general mobilization of the armed forces, sent troop reinforcements scurrying up to the Tamil areas. She decreed a state of emergency, under which strikers could be jailed for up to five years, and imposed curfews on principal Tamil communities. She banned the Tamils' Federal Party, tossed into jail more than 70 of its leaders, including all but one of its Members of Parliament. Swiftly, the rebelliousness of the widow...
Based on a novel (TIME, May 12, 1958) by Alberto Moravia, Two Women tells how a Roman grocer's widow (Loren), sick of the war and scared of the bombing, packs her bags and takes her teen-aged daughter (Eleonora Brown) back to the mountain hut where she was born. There they work the stony fields and chatter away the evenings with the peasant women...
...brutish cannibal giants, shipwreck, seduction, famine and feast. Meanwhile, back at the palace, a half-hundred soft civilians squatted on the absent lord's domain, eating and drinking their heads off, seducing the maidservants, insulting the stripling heir, and competing for the honor of consoling the presumed widow. The whole bloody and wonderful business ends when Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, first humiliates the suitors in a contest at archery, then slaughters the whole "wolf pack" of them, hangs the faithless female help, washes off the blood, makes love to Penelope, restores his son to honor and sets...
Married. Eunice Bailey Oakes, about 32, British-born beauty and the widow of William Pitt Oakes, whose father, Sir Harry Oakes, was mysteriously murdered in Nassau in 1943; and Robert David Lion Gardiner, fiftyish, longtime bachelor and owner of Gardiner's Island, a 3,300-acre tract off eastern Long Island that has been in the family since 1639 and that becomes the property of Yale if there are no Gardiner heirs; in New York City. An outpouring of diamond-studded society made it the winter's most glittering wedding...