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...place names. Calcutta's Clive Street (India's Wall Street) had been renamed Netaji Subhas Road to honor the late Bengal leader, Subhas Chandra Bose. He was a traitor in British eyes for helping the Japs; but to Indians Bose was a patriot. The holy Ganges would revert to the Sanskrit form, Ganga. Madras would become Chennapatnam. The city of Rajahmundry would become Rajamahendravaram, which would be harder to spell, but since 87% of Indians could not write that would not matter so much...
...feeding the world, there was shocking news. Western Europe is running a deficit of $5 billion a year in fuel, grain, oils and basic commodities. In a matter of months a crisis will come. Unless the U.S. goes to the rescue, Western Europe's civilization will collapse and revert to the country-village pattern of medieval times. The receiver in such a bankruptcy would be Communist Russia...
...approval. But he had little time-unless WAA gave him another extension. There was little chance of that because Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, whose Michigan automakers regard Tucker as a wishful dreamer, had turned a probing eye on the whole deal. Ferguson said that he "assumed" the plant would revert to WAA if Tucker did not make good on July...
...registration of the eleven hundred-odd men who are expected to file through Memorial Hall today the College will conclude the major part of its preliminary activity for what is to be the last regular Summer Session--for some years at least. Hereafter the June to September ratrace will revert to its pre-war form in which it was chiefly an opportunity for spinsterish school marms to sip a few heady draughts from a traditionally masculine fountain of knowledge...
...Bender on July 1, will be the sole remaining counsellor in the office, and his work will be limited to administration of Veteran's Administration business. The last returning veterans will enter College with this fall's registration of '51, and with them the task of screening applicants will revert to the Committee on Admissions...