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...into a hairdresser's to have her head shaved in shame. Of South Korea's defiant Dong Kih Choh, disqualified in his flyweight boxing preliminary, sitting angrily in his corner for 50 minutes while officials pleaded with him to leave the ring. And of the Hungarian water poloist who lost his trunks while the whole of Japan watched...
...ladies, and a solid phalanx of Washington officials, socialites and curious local farmers. The star attraction was Lieut. General His Highness Saramad-i-Rajahai Hindustan Raj Rajendra Shri Maharajadhiraj Sir Sawai Man Singh Badahur, Maharaja of Jaipur, Rajpramukh of Rajasthan, descendant of the sun gods and a most puissant poloist...
Saris & Cha Cha Cha. Last week's game was arranged by an old friend and fellow poloist, J. K. Atal, minister of the Indian embassy. The maharaja and his handsome son and heir, Maharaj Kumar Bhwani Singh, 21, alternated in the No. 4 position on a team of mixed diplomats (Indians, Britons and a Pakistani), against the socialite Washington Polo Club team. The maharaja, a big (6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs.), beaming fellow, turned up in unexotic loafers, levis and leather chaps, managed to score one goal (he has a seven-goal rating) before the weather fagged...
...sport, since the minimum equipment usually includes a string of ponies at a minimum of $1,500 each. Now it was getting too expensive for the rich, too. Obviously no one was going to rewrite the nation's tax laws just to save polo. Millionaire Poloist George H. Bostwick decided that the only cure for the ailing old sport was an injection of professionalism...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Sajjan Singhji, 67, Maharaja of Ratlam, small (693 square miles) Indian state, internationally known poloist; in Bombay...