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...John Galla, the B.U. student who assisted in Pratt's escape, visited Pratt and the other AWOL servicemen, Raymond Kroll, in Marsh Chapel Tuesday. Accordin to Galla, Pratt said then that he did not want any part of Resistance demonstrations, but wanted the opportunity to express his personal feelings about...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Marine Comes Over to Authorities; Rejects Sanctuary in B.U. Chapel | 10/3/1968 | See Source »

With a general election ahead, Ceylon's leader has every reason to be edgy. Mrs. Bandaranaike is contesting her late husband's old seat at Attana-galla, near Colombo, and while she may keep a place in Parliament, she may well lose her prime-ministership. Labor strikes and a binge of nationalization have crippled the economy. Last summer she tried to prop up her unstable government by forming an alliance with the island's Trotskyites, who received three Cabinet portfolios, including the Finance Ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ceylon: Music to Vote By | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...more than a month now, Steinberg and have been engaged in a dispute over "Communist and "Marxist" leanings in paper's columns. The controversy broke into the press on September 21, when Galla- charged that "Communist-oriented students" controlled the Observation Post...

Author: By Arthur D. Hellman, | Title: CCNY President, Student Editor Tangle in Controversy Over Alleged Marxist Leanings of College Newspaper | 10/28/1960 | See Source »

...gradually absorbs them as its means of sustenance. The latter is more subtle and lazy--it makes no motions. Insects are lured into its pitcher-like growths and are so tangled and dazed by the intricacies within that they never return to daylight. Then there is the strange White Galla plant which spurts water from the tips of its leaves under a bright light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSECT-EATERS, SQUIRTERS AMONG GREEN HOUSE FLORA | 3/19/1938 | See Source »

...Somaliland and newly-conquered Ethiopia ceased to exist separately. With swift strokes he divided his East African domain into five autonomous provinces under the supervision of Viceroy Pietro Badoglio in the new capital, Addis Ababa. The new provinces and their capitals: Eritrea (Asmara); Amhara (Gondar); Harar (Harar), Somaliland (Mogadiscio); Galla & Sidamo (Gimma). Il Duce also promised religious freedom to Moslems of his domain, returned the Ethiopian Coptic Christian Church to its old Egyptian affiliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Lion Incognito | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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