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...Burma, and a staggering 200,000 of them are expected to leave before the current flood ends. Next week the first of 60 shiploads of Indians will begin docking at the southern ports of Madras and Visakhapatnam. Half a dozen refugee flights from Rangoon are already arriving at Calcutta's Dum Dum airport each day, and the waiting rooms are piled high with the pitiful possessions of the uprooted-lumpy bundles of bedding, cheap suitcases, bright plastic pails stuffed with children's toys and kitchen utensils...
...tried to picture the city of the year 2000. Tilly said that population growth "suggests huge metropolises and densities that we haven't yet learned how to handle." The size of Greater New York, for example, will probably jump to at least 25 million from the present 10, and Calcutta, India, now smaller than New York, will rise to 36 million, he noted...
...wherever customers can be found. Besides its three main U.S. plants it has built twelve overseas, has also engineered 400 enameling factories for customers to whom it then sells raw frit. Last week President Harry T. Marks was in India negotiating to build a Ferro-owned frit plant in Calcutta...
...that burst in on terrified Hindu mill workers in Dacca, East Pakistan's capital, with daggers, axes and steel bars. Among the dead were her husband and 19-year-old son. At Jessore, grey-bearded, shirtless Osman Ghani talked wistfully of his home and stationery shop in Calcutta, both burned to the ground by Hindu mobs. After weeks in an Indian relief camp, Ghani, his wife and three children had just made their way to Pakistan, arriving without a rupee to their name...
...brownish bristle from the head of the Prophet Mohammed was stolen from a mosque in Kashmir last December, long dormant hatreds erupted between the Hindus and Moslems. Though the relic was ultimately recovered, anti-Hindu rioting broke out in Kashmir and East Pakistan. When refugees reached near by Calcutta with tales of Moslem terror, the Hindus struck back...