Word: cooch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state of Madhya Pradesh. The lavish royal guest house is a Girl Scout training center, and the main palace is a museum that charges 300 a head for admission. Many out-of-work princes drifted into the foreign service. Some took a fling at business; the Maharajah of Cooch Behar even organized tiger-hunting safaris, complete with flush toilets under canvas...
Harvard's fourth win in a row vindicated Cooch Edo Marion's freshman coaching technique. While C.C.N.Y. tells its freshmen to charge and attack, Marion stresses careful technique. The C.C.N.Y. method produced winning freshman teams, but the freshmen can't use the same tactics when they graduate to the varsity. Several C.C.N.Y. varsity fencers tried to win with bombast, but they were caught by Harvard stop thrusts...
...dumped the horse manure at Paddy Kennedy's pub? The Maharani of Cooch Behar did, with the help of a truck. "I couldn't resist," explained the maharani, former Model Gina Egan, because it was her old friend Paddy's birthday and he was throwing a blast for himself at his pub, The Star, in London's Belgravia Mews. "Paddy has always backed my racehorse Mack the Knife, and he's been complaining that he's always lost," the maharani went on, "so I decided to send him a birthday present from Mack...
...tour of the French countryside. As luck would have it, the car ran out of gas alongside a suburban golf course -so Sobel played his first round dressed in tails and patent leather shoes. Within four years he was good enough to attract the attention of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, who was looking for somebody to design him a golf course and teach him the game. Sobel packed off to India. "His Royal Highness was a pretty vain fellow," Ross recalls, "so I decided not to push my luck. I laid out a nine-hole course that was only...
...notable departure from big fair tradition that was planned is the absence of a midway, with its cooch dancers, catchpenny games and garish gadgetry. Instead, there are more religious pavilions than any other U.S. world's fair has ever known. The 1939 fair had only a single Temple of Religion; organized faith has taken better advantage of its rent-free opportunities in 1964 with numerous exhibits and no fewer than eight buildings...