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Year ago the Nationalists met in Calcutta and resolved this ultimatum: If the British...
...unthinkable last week and plunged into the river's murky depths. Some 21 hours and 56 miles later, she was plucked out of the water, the first person ever to swim around Manhattan Island twice. An out-of-work Broadway actress who appeared in Oh! Calcutta! a year ago, Ridge staged the double circumnavigation to boost her career. Nothing turned up immediately. On the other hand, not much unexpected turned up during the swim either. "I came across some things I wouldn't bottle and send to my mother," says Ridge, "but no dead rats or bodies...
Even if the coach was the one rejected, the city of Baltimore could not help feeling slurred. That Baltimore now constitutes the N.F.L.'s Black Hole of Calcutta seems rather sad if you know the charms of gritty cities and remember Lenny Moore, Raymond Berry, Jim Parker, Gino Marchetti, Alan Ameche, L.G. ("Long Gone") Dupre, "Big Daddy" Lipscomb and other remarkable players on exceptional Colts teams. "It is nothing but money, greed and selfishness any more," laments former Baltimore Quarterback Johnny Unitas, who never turned down any money but whose first salary in the N.F.L...
Doors are now swinging open for a wide variety of foreign projects in India. The Gandhi government recently obtained $680 million in loans on the Eurocurrency market to build an alumina plant southwest of Calcutta. France's Aluminium Pechiney will be constructing the factory. New Delhi also plans to build eight 1,000-MW electric-generating stations at a cost of nearly $1 billion each. The first of these will be built by a British consortium headed by Northern Engineering Industries of London...
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Catholic missionary and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.: "You are being sent to proclaim [the] good news of love, of peace, of joy. And we have never needed this proclamation more than today-the whole world. And yet the young ones are hungry for God. I'm sure deep down in your hearts you have that hunger for God. Do not be afraid. He loves you. You are precious to him ... 'I called you by your name. You are mine. Water cannot drown you. Fire will...