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Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 46, has headed Ceylon's government for two years, since the assassination of her Prime Minister husband, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike. Tough-minded, multilingual Frances Elizabeth Willis, 63, first career woman diplomat in the U.S. to achieve ambassadorial rank, was serving in the Oslo embassy...
Their relations instead have been as cool as Ceylon's breezeswept uplands. Miss Willis, a cordial onetime (1924-27) Vassar assistant professor in political science, believes that the "basis of diplomacy is to be tactful and sincere at the same time." Mrs. Bandaranaike, who confides that Ceylon's...
Though the Ceylon government agreed to compensate the companies, it let three months pass without even appointing a tribunal to settle the claim. Finally, Miss Willis last month reminded Ceylon's Finance Minister, who also happens to be Mrs. Bandaranaike's nephew, that the U.S. President is specifically...
The letter was also leaked to Ceylon's tightly controlled press, though on reflection a government ministry later denied that the letter had ever been written. Tactful and sincere at the same time, Miss Willis last week pointedly said nothing. Mere men agreed that such a display of patience...
Gasping Leviathans. But modern air conditioning began with the discovery that cooling was not enough; it was also necessary to control the humidity. In 1902 Willis Carrier, who is said by his corporate heirs to be air conditioning's Edison, designed his first system for a Brooklyn printing plant...