Word: dacca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jazz-lorn city of Dacca, Pakistan, Dizzy discovered a ragged boy playing a one-stringed instrument on the street, and found the weird sounds so congenial that he stopped and had a jam session. In Karachi the first show was half-empty, the second nearly full, the third packed. "Man," bragged Dizzy, "give us three shows, and we'll create our own audience." At a garden party in Ankara, Gillespie saw a tattered crowd peering from outside the fence and insisted that they be admitted. "We came to play for the poor people as well as the rich people...
...Britons ever did in the palmy days of Empire, cricketers of the staid old Marylebone Cricket Club began their tour of Pakistan this winter by roughing up some hotel servants in Karachi. "A bit of tomfoolery," said the diplomatic hotel manager. Then the ambassadors of good will moved to Dacca, where they squirted soda water over other hotel guests. Polite Pakistani laughed it all off as mere youthful enthusiasm. Last week, the Pakistani stopped laughing...
Offices to implement this study's recommendations in Karachi, Lahore, and Dacca will be manned by two American economists. They will train a small group of Pakistani economists to administer the program spelled out in the report...
...Alexander Langmuir, chief epidemic-fighter for the U.S. Public Health Service, and five assistants left Washington for East Pakistan's capital of Dacca...
Last week, after two months of such goings-on, Huq and his government were deposed on Ali's orders and Defense Secretary Iskander Mirza was sent in to restore law & order. Tough, Sandhurst-trained Mirza drove to his new headquarters at Government House in Dacca along a five-mile route pointedly lined with armed troops and cops. He ordered the arrest of more than 600 Reds and assorted troublemakers, clamped on press censorship, prohibited meetings of more than five persons and sent troops swarming through the local capital to take over the secretariat, railway depot, radio station, powerhouse...