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Meals and Medicare. Also genuinely devoted to their pets are such people as Glen Crank, a blue-collar worker in Hammond, Ind., whose dependents include a poodle, a pointer, a Saint Bernard (caskless), a cat, a ferret and a cougar named Rajah; to defray Rajah's $1,000 acquisition costs, say the Cranks, they had to "eat beans for months." (They have since been forced by neighborhood pressure to give Rajah to a local zoo.) The potentates of petdom may well be the 65 dogs whose meals and Medicare are assured by the will of Quaker State Oil Heiress...
...nuances of custom, dress and etiquette are preserved on those brilliantly colored and gilded scraps of paper. An 18th century rajah, ensconced on a swing, conducts an orchestra of stiffly profiled girls against the beautifully austere background of his black and white marble palace (see color page); a Mughal potentate presides over the fertility celebration of Holi, while the white-robed members of his court play at a mock battle, squirting each other with red dye from syringes...
...present the proposed center is known only as Pithat Rajah (Approach to Rafah). The community is a planner's dream. Two-thirds of the population will live in twelve-story high-rise apartments. The remainder will occupy semidetached houses, eight families to an acre. Many of their social needs have already been slide-ruled and computerized: 30 students to a class room, a movie theater for each 3,500 families, four acres of sports facilities for every 1,000 families...
...like modern chess, was called chaturanga, or the army game. The pieces represented the four elements of the Indian army: chariots, elephants, cavalry and infantry; they evolved through the centuries into rooks, bishops, knights and pawns. In its travels, the Hindi word rajah, for king, became shah in Persian, which led to the Arabic phrase shah mat, meaning the king is dead, from which the term checkmate is derived...
...SPEAK about all sides of Charles Eames is as difficult, as Charles Eliot Norton trying to appreciate Hindu cookery; "it was impossible for me to do justice to the fifteen different articles which the hospitable attention of the Rajah urged upon me." And it would be just as difficult to define in words the Eames approach to problem solving that he will discuss and demonstrate in the Norton lecture series...