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Debré wanted broad powers to regulate, and gradually eliminate, the home distillers. The legislators balked at that. Finally and reluctantly, they passed his bill, but only after adding a proviso that no presently licensed home distiller-or his widow-should be deprived of his right to distill his own brandy. This meant that the government, by granting no new permits, could stamp out home distilling -in only 60 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Potted Planters | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

Beloved Husband. Prime Minister Sirimavo is the weeping widow of a much-loved man. Solomon West Ridgeway Bias Bandaranaike, known to all Ceylon as "Banda," who ruled Ceylon for three years as a benevolently bumbling leftist, then was shot to death last September by a Buddhist monk. When elections were called for March, the hack politicians of Banda's Sri Lanka Freedom Party paraded his widow about the country not as a candidate but as a figurehead, and backed her up with the dead man's recorded speeches. Sri Lanka nonetheless managed to get only enough seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: Tearful Ruler | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

When new elections were called, the widow agreed after long hesitation to become the candidate for Prime Minister. Opposing her was the United National Party's able, Cambridge-educated Barrister Dudley Shelton Senanayake, 49, who has been serving as caretaker Prime Minister since April. Senanayake could brag that his party had soundly run Ceylon's tea-rubber-coconut economy in their days of power (1948-56). Under the United National Party's administration, Ceylon had achieved a per-capita income double neighboring India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: Tearful Ruler | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

...United Nationalists had no weeping widow. Mrs. Banda turned up at rallies all over Ceylon to recall her husband's greatness in a small, flat voice-and then burst into a torrent of tears. Senanayake's party actually led by a narrow margin in total ballots. But Mrs. Banda won 75 seats to 30 for the United Nationalists. Six appointive seats will give her a majority in the 157-man House, even without her wide support among Trotskyite and Communist representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: Tearful Ruler | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

...with which keening womenfolk usher the Maniot out of a harsh world that neither man nor God seemingly made. More a lament for a hero being taken to the underworld than for a Christian going to his reward-even as she makes the sign of the cross, the grieving widow will say, "Charon took him"-the miroloy mirrors in its 16-syllable line the lament of Andromache over the body of Hector. At graveside, the chief mourner's voice becomes a howl of hysteria ("Oh, my warrior! The arch and pillar of our house!"), her hair tumbles in disorder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rock Garden of the Gods | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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