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Franklin goes unsung in the U.S., but is famous in the exotic cities listed on its Manhattan front door: Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, Tehran. Lahore, Dacca, Kuala Lumpur, Djakarta. In those places, far from Manhattan's Publishers' Row, Franklin in ten years has guided the printing of 26,477,800 books in such exotic languages as Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Bengali, Malay and Indonesian...
...Pakistani educators from the University of Dacca are visiting here to study student personnel services, in accordance with Pakistan's nation-wide program of school reforms...
Wonderland by Night (Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra; Dacca). An import from Germany that rocks on its mistily melodic way like an old-fashioned excursion steamer. The orchestra is expert, the vintage Prom Trotter...
...storm smashed telephone and telegraph lines so thoroughly that it was five days before the news reached Dacca, less than 100 miles away. Even so, the first government official to visit the area reported "four boys washed away," and called other casualty figures "grossly exaggerated." But last week, eleven days after the storm struck, the estimate was that the total would be "unimaginably higher'' than the 5,000 dead reported on Ramgati and Hatia alone. Getting out of his Jeep to inspect some still-standing huts in the stricken region, East Pakistan Governor Lieut. General Azam Khan observed...
...coming under fire. In the Times of India, Columnist Amita Malik recently launched a cutting campaign against foreigners in saris. "If there is anything uglier than an Indian matron in bulging jeans," she snapped, "it is a white woman, tall, angular and with straw-colored hair, wearing a Dacca sari Foreign wives fondly imagine that they look beautiful in saris, when they would look miles better in gingham...