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Less than an hour later, Indian troops rode triumphantly into Dacca as Bengalis went delirious with joy. "It was liberation day," cabled TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin. "Dacca exploded in an ecstasy of hard-won happiness. There was wild gunfire in the air, impromptu parades, hilarity and horn honking, and processions of jammed trucks and cars, all mounted with the green, red and gold flag of Bangladesh. Bengalis hugged and kissed Indian jawans, stuck marigolds in their gun barrels and showered them with garlands of jasmine. If 'Jai Bangla!' (Victory to Bengal!) was screamed once, it was screamed...
Among the other treasures: crystal flutes; a ceramic horn from Germany, painted with blue flowers and glazed; fish-shaped slit drums from Japan; 5-in.-long fiddles that 18th century dancing masters carried in their pockets; Indian randsringas, a form of trumpet (left); New Guinea bull-roarers (wood carvings designed to roar when swung over the head on a string); and walking sticks that unfold into violins for instant serenades...
...Horatio Alger myth of the self-made man. In the modern world, he seems to say, only the man with superpowers can survive and prosper. Still, though comics are indeed a popular art form, it is going a bit far to compare, as Critic Maurice Horn does, Gasoline Alley to Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and Little Orphan Annie to the works of Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo. As Mammy Yokum might say: "Some folks don't know when to stop...
Sailing coach Mike Horn is particularly enthusiastic about the floats, also conceived by Walter Everett. The ability to manuever the floats into the wind greatly eases docking facilities for sailboats which must head into the wind to stop and dock. In addition both sides of the seven sixteen-foot sections of floats can be utilized to make over 100 feet of space on each side. The segments, which absorb waves more smoothly than one continuous span can be dismantled and piled on top of each other for easy storage in the winter...
...colleges turned out crews in moderately easterly breezes on Saturday and were gusted by nor'westers on Sunday. Team coach Mike Horn praised the outstanding ability and over-all depth of the Radcliffe women. With the Man-Labs Trophy secured on the Yacht club trophy shelf, Radcliffe is favored to capture the Victorian Coffee Urn in two weeks, climaxing the Fall season here at Radcliffe. This week-end the team will have two tough warm-up meets: the Invitational at MIT on Saturday and at Jackson on Sunday...