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...Downstream in Bangladesh, a Wiscon-sin-size delta of 250 rivers, half of the capital, Dhaka, is under water. Thirty million people are in distress nationwide; nearly 500 people and 55,000 cows have died from drowning, disease or bites from snakes crowding the dry land. In her hut in eastern Dhaka, 20-year-old garment factory worker Rahela Khatoon chained her two-year-old son to a bamboo pole to save him from a black tide of sewage, pollution and the occasional swollen body floating past her front door. "It's like living on the edge of a boat...
September Fri.29 HARVARD INVITATIONAL (w/BC, Colon, Rice, Wiscon.) October Sun. 1 HARVARD INVITATIONAL Fri. 13 at ITA Regional Championships Sun. 15 (site TBA) Fri. 27 Rolex Invitational Mon. 30 (Site...
...Ingolf) Romnes, 52, was elected president of Western Electric Co., manufacturing arm of A. T. & T., to succeed the late Arthur B. Goetze. Son of a Norwegian immigrant baker, Romnes went to work for the Bell System installing telephones during his senior year at the University of Wiscon sin, joined A. T. & T. when he graduated in 1928. Romnes became A. T. & T. chief of engineering in 1952, a vice president...
Wendell Willkie's 1944 future seemed to be staked on the Wisconsin primary of April 4. If he wins a majority of Wiscon sin's 24 delegates, he is still in the running for the G.O.P. nomination. If he does not, practical politicians were ready (& eager) to write him off. Willkie himself chose the battlefield, and it was a tough one. He chose a state partly within the reading orbit of the Chicago Tribune, a state that pledged its votes to Dewey...
...four-year term went to George C. Matthews, onetime member of Wiscon sin's utilities commission, the man whom President Roosevelt made a Trade Commissioner last October after ousting William E. Humphrey whose conservative ideas did not suit the New Deal. Messrs. Healy and Matthews are nominal Republicans...
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