Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This schoolboy's vision of scientifically organized socialist society, based essentially on an esthetic distaste for poverty and an aristocratic contempt for "shopkeepers." was made to order for a Harrovian Brahman, and it was one of the enduring marks which Nehru bore when he returned to India in 1912. "Do what I will," he admitted years later, "I cannot get out of the habits of mind and the standards and ways of judging other countries, as well as life generally, which I acquired in school and college in England...
When Mrs. Floyd Hutchens, 33, of El Cajon, bore twin sons in San Diego's Grossmont Hospital July 2, they were joined for 1½ inches at the base of their spines. This is the commonest form of joining in "Siamese" twins, but there was only one case in U.S. medical annals where both twins so joined had survived an operation to separate them...
Last week, as the monsoon bore in on Patiala with its drenching rains, the evacuated princes pooled their meager resources and sent four of their brothers roaring off in tandem on two motorcycles to seek help from the national government in New Delhi. "This," proclaimed young Prince Bobby Singh, "is a test of democracy! If the Maharajah can treat royalty like this, what hope can there be for the masses...
...Switzerland, fat, sad ex-King Farouk of Egypt, who still cherishes the notion that he was a benign despot, succeeded in looking like a benign father. His three daughters (Ferial, Fadia, Fawzia) are by Farida, his first wife, who in three tries bore him no male heirs. At his knee, Farouk fondly held Prince Ahmed Fuad II, 3, a winsome lad and sole product of his second queen, Narriman Sadek...
...writer-comedian conferences: "An incredible bore . . . Most comedians are not qualified judges of the kind of material they should...