Word: rajah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They come in all styles, all sizes, and some colors that even the spectrum hasn't seen for years. Hanes offers a heavy-ribbed version in "Rajah White," Christian Dior a fishnet design in "the ocean's own colors." There are textures that look like flowers, some patterned on art nouveau curlicues, others with clover leaves, diamond shapes...
...course that snakes in and out of six countries, only 81 of 132 starters were still riding as the tour swung into the final 17-mi. dash for Paris. Anquetil had a bare 14-sec. lead over his closest pursuer, but then bike racing's reigning rajah turned it on and pumped across the finish line for a 55-sec. victory, slimmest margin in the race's 51 years...
...Sarawak might have stepped from the pages of a Conrad novel. The first and last English family to occupy an Oriental throne, they fought pirates and hostile sultans, pacified headhunters and brought the white man's law to their cruel, vibrantly beautiful land in northwest Borneo. The Brooke rajahs ruled their Kentucky-size kingdom with the stern dignity of a Victorian paterfamilias, but with humanity and imagination as well; in the annals of colonialism, few dynasties have been so selflessly devoted to their subject's welfare. The first Brooke rajah was James, a wealthy, high-minded adventurer...
...palace. The country has never recovered from the loss of its leader. When the Malaysian Federation (TIME Cover, April 12) comes into existence in August, strife-torn Sarawak will be one of its states and will have its best opportunity yet to achieve prosperity and stability. The last white rajah did not live to see that day. Last week, at 88, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke died in his London home. When the news reached Sarawak, the spirit-worshiping Dyaks rejoiced, for they knew that his soul would return to the stream-laced land of his fathers...
Trailing Candy Spots, in order, will be Never Bend, Chateaugay, Bonjour, No Robbery, on My Honor, Grey Pet, Royal Tower, and Rajah Noor...