Word: baroda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is Daddy-O, taking large gulps of refreshing nightclub air somewhere on the Left Bank," wrote the London Evening Standard's Paris correspondent. Among his recent companions: Actress Elsa Martinelli and her photographer husband, Henri Dubonnet of the apéritif family, the Maharani of Baroda. And Jackie-O? Last week Mrs. Onassis was reportedly winging into Paris to disengage Ari from the spas and take him to the Canary Islands...
...kept the peace. Moreover, for the first time a Negro had made overtures to the Indian population. Since many are rice or sugarcane farmers, Burnham's government has been working on new strains that will mean better crops. Also, Burnham allowed India's Bank of Baroda to open a branch in Guyana, declared national holidays on Muslim and Hindu feast days, issued Guyanan postage stamps in honor of the Koran. As a result, Burnham last week carried Indian districts that Jagan had always considered safe. And the long-term effects of such policies augur well for mineral-rich...
Candles and Cake. Neither, it seems, could anyone who got an invitation. Of notable names, there was no end: Umberto, ex-King of Italy; Juscelino Kubitschek, ex-President of Brazil; Stavros Niarchos, ex-husband of Charlotte Ford Niarchos. For titles, there were the Maharanee of Baroda, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Princess Ira von Furstenberg and Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes. Salvador Dali materialized, so to speak. So did Hollywood Director Vincente Minnelli, Sonja Henie, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Audrey Hepburn, Françoise Sagan and Penelope Tree...
...India's fabulously rich aristocracy, whose income, estimated at $160,000 a week in 1951, ranked him among the world's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in London. A whirlwind life of fast planes and thoroughbred horses was the maharajah's style, and as prince of Baroda State, he played the role to the hilt, even after Nehru stripped him of his title for misusing $5,000,000 of the state's funds...
Other converts to the windows: Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, the Maharani of Baroda and Libya's King Idris I. Only trouble is that the purdah glass, in a way, is self-defeating. It is so noticeable that the instantly curious flock around to try penetrating its secrets, let an ordinary clear-windowed car go by without a second glance...