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From S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, Ceylon's Prime Minister, came the merest suggestion of a deadpan snicker. Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon Maxwell H. Gluckthe businessman who could not put his tongue to Bandaranaike's name nor pronounce Jawaharlal Nehru's when a Senate committee ambushed him (TIME, Aug. 12)should not fret about his pronunciation difficulties, said the Prime Minister. Observed the Oxford-educated Bandaranaike dryly: "I can't pronounce his name either. I don't know whether it should be pronounced 'Click' or 'Gluck' [correct: Gluck]. I shouldn't think...
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