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...Golden Bengal. They brought the green, red and gold banner of Bengal out of secret hiding places to flutter freely from buildings, while huge pictures of their imprisoned leader, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, sprang up overnight on trucks, houses and signposts. As Indian troops advanced first to Jessore, then to Comilla, then to the outskirts of the capital of Dacca, small children clambered over their trucks and Bengalis everywhere cheered and greeted the soldiers as liberators...
...Buenaventura Valley, Colombia, William F. Woudenberg, 32, a draftsman from Paterson, N.J., developed a loom to make forms for concrete out of plentiful bamboo instead of hard-to-find wood or expensive steel. In the East Pakistan village of Comilla, another inventive corpsman Robert Taylor, 24, from Oakdale, Calif., solved the problem of parboiling rice without using scarce wood; he uses rice husks instead, does the job ten times faster. Stephen L. Keller, 24, from Brooklyn, New York, watched a worker in a Punjab bicycle factory count 6,800 ball bearings one by one, built a ball-bearing counter that...
Murder of several Britishers in Bengal was certain from the moment that Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon issued his ordinance suppressing the right of free speech and many another right (TIME, Dec. 14).* Last week fate made that innocent and worthy bureaucrat Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens, District Magistrate of Comilla, the first victim of fierce Bengalese reprisal...
...Miss Santi Ghose, daughter of the late Professor Debendra Ghose of Comilla College, and the other was Miss Sunity Chowdhuri, also an undergraduate. They presented a petition, asking that Mr. Stevens arrange a swimming competition among their classmates. "But my dear young ladies," smiled the Magistrate, "surely your headmistress is the proper person to consult in this matter. However, I will read your petition...
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