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Died. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, 80, India's autocratic Chief Minister of West Bengal, including Calcutta, since 1948, a bachelor, who as Mahatma Gandhi's personal physician kept his patient alive during the freedom fasts by sugaring his orange juice; of a stroke; in Calcutta...
...hours before the Russians arrived, a crowd estimated at more than 2,000,000 jammed the center of the city. Only a comparative handful were within viewing distance when at last Khrushchev, Bulganin and their host, West Bengal Chief Minister Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, showed up in an open Mercedes-Benz. At the intersection of two of Calcutta's big streets, the Russians waved their straw hats, and Khrushchev cried out in their own language: "Hindi Russi bhai bhai!" (Indians, Russians, brothers, brothers!). Instantly the crowd burst forward, shattering police lines and bamboo barricades to swarm over...
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