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...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 reluctant party members...
...widow has unquestionably shattered the harmony of her island nation by her attacks on the Catholic and Tamil minorities, but her insistence that Ceylon belongs to the Singhalese is vastly popular with the vast majority. In Parliament last week, she had more than enough votes to beat down the no-confidence motion, 75-44. Explaining her disrupting success, a Singhalese politician said: "Other countries had a revolution, but the British handed us freedom on a platter. The average man found freedom was no different from life under the British. We are having our national revolution...
Married. Janet Ellen Wagner Frank, 29, photographer's model and widow of Lawyer Julian Frank, who was killed, along with 33 others, in a plane crash 13 months ago when a dynamite bomb exploded near his seat in an unsolved murder-or-suicide mystery that has prevented the payoff to his widow of $997,500 in insurance; and Joseph F. Rafferty, 37, newly appointed San Francisco sales manager of the Phillips-Van Heusen shirt company; in New York City on St. Valentine...
...year-old Bobby Franks in a Dostoyevskian crime without passion, was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years, served 33 years before earning parole in 1958, and is now a graduate student of sociology at the University of Puerto Rico; and Trudi Garcia de Quevedo, 56, Baltimore-born widow who runs a flower shop in San Juan; in Castaner, Puerto Rico, in a civil ceremony kept secret for 48 hours but approved by the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board...
Over the objections of neighbors trying to exclude "undesirable elements," and despite the lavish offers of land developers, some 1,400 acres of lush Long Island exurbia-long owned by the late Marshall Field-became a New York State park. Selling the property for $4,278,000 were his widow, Ruth Pruyn Field, and the Field Foundation. With its polo field, shooting preserve, seaplane and yacht docks, the Caumsett domain was called by Long Island State Park Commission President Robert Moses-"one of the largest and finest remaining privately owned estates on the Island...