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...office on Calcutta's fashionable Park Street last week, fluorescent lights burned late into the night as a team of engineers bent over their drawing boards rushing to complete plans for Asia's biggest steam power plant. By 1964 the 300 megawatt Bandel power station is scheduled to supply badly needed electricity to Calcutta's industrial belt. But almost as significant to the Indian economy as the $54 million project itself is the fact that the engineers designing it are all Indians-members of Kuljian Corp. of India, the first Indian-run consulting engineering firm capable...
...pretense that certain things happened to him that actually happened to someone else. The pertinence of the theme, symbolically or literally, is not made apparent, as the hero successively changes his name, testifies in a trial as an eyewitness to events he never saw, and later, on seduction bent, "enters" a girl's life by pretending he knew her dead brother. In the telling, everything is hemstitched with the heaviest of literary embroidery. (A telephone booth is "a slim, body-width oratory . . . a temple of self-abuse, saving synagogue of the air.") Once in a while there...
...tally, scored off a fine cross by wing Mike Kramer, climaxed a sustained Crimson onslaught that produced several agonizing near misses. Dartmouth's three- and four-fullback defense, backed by Ellington's acrobatie goaltending, held off the Crimson's attack until it seemed that no amount of hell-bent scrambling would break the 1-1 deadlock...
...87th Precinct began with a gimmick (the heroine of the initial episodes was the deaf-mute wife of a police detective) and will undoubtedly end on one-soon. Cain's Hundred (also NBC) has introduced Nicholas Cain (Mark Richman), onetime attorney for the mob, now bent on revenge for the mob murder of his fiancée and out to get-one by one-the 100 biggest worms that ever came out of an Apalachin...
Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, Emeritus, whose great work, Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, was a landmark in classical studies, died at the age of 73 yesterday morning in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, following injury suffered in a fall. Until his death, Jaeger continued to serve the University as director of the Institute of Classical Studies...