Word: poona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poona, Menon played his role as India's Defense Minister by enveloping his frail frame in a flying suit, strapping on a crash helmet and climbing aboard a Canberra jet bomber of the Indian air force. Streaking into Bombay in eleven minutes, Menon next appeared-natty in a white suit and swinging a cane-aboard the cruiser Mysore, the new flagship of the Indian navy. But it was as a politician of the folksy, Estes Kefauver model that Menon drew the largest crowds. At New Delhi and Madras he packed meeting halls to the rafters, and dhoti-clad crowds...
Three prominent Indian educators from Poona University, who are studying general education at Harvard for several months, agreed last night that "over-specialization" is the basic danger to their country's universities. The educators are part of a large exchange program, sponsored by the U.S. State Department...
Sadanand Kogekar, professor of History and Political Sciences at Poona's Ferguson College, explained that the emphasis of Indian education has been shifting to technical subjects and probably will continue in this direction...
...almost daily boasts about Soviet power. Of Khrushchev's speech on nuclear weapons, one Indian complained: "It reminds us of what Nehru said three years ago: 'Some people talk about peace so loudly it sounds like war.' " The only open show of reserve was at Poona, once the citadel of British Imperial rule and now the site of India's impressive, 1,000-cadet National Defense Academy...
...sloop Fresh Breeze, the Duke's Fox-designed Coweslip, and his slim Dragon-class sloop Bluebottle. But they had a fine time anyway. At his home, a converted waterfront warehouse, Uffa presided over the nightly after-dinner festivities that lasted until dawn. At a dinner for the Imperial Poona Yacht Club, he donned a pith helmet and led his cronies in spoon-hammering sea chanties. Said one Cowes pubkeeper: "There's pirates 'round Cowes at regatta time, and Uffa's the worst of the lot." Lusty Uffa Fox certainly has a touch of Kidd and Blackbeard...