Word: singhs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge, black-bearded Sir Bhupindar Singh, autocrat of the princely State of Patiala, set out for France to mount a blooded stallion and lead his own private army of fighting Sikhs against the Kaiser's Germans in World War I. A princely spender even in the days when spending came easily to India's princes, Patiala's Maharajah was an enthusiastic cricketer and polo player as well, and his enthusiasm for the hunt was such that he was forced to import tigers by the dozen from neighboring states to eke out his own rapidly dwindling stock...
Concubines & Catalogues. The eldest of the children, Yadavindra Singh, a youth of 25 as black-bearded as his father and even handsomer, became the new Maharajah. Already married to a woman of his father's choice, Yadavindra began to seem an authentic chip off the old block when he took a second wife, but the resemblance was short-lived. A conscientious family man with a keen interest in a balanced budget, the young Maharajah shipped his first wife into retirement, settled down contentedly with his second, to collect, not concubines, but seed catalogues and brochures on farm machinery. Stripped...
Last week, as the monsoon bore in on Patiala with its drenching rains, the evacuated princes pooled their meager resources and sent four of their brothers roaring off in tandem on two motorcycles to seek help from the national government in New Delhi. "This," proclaimed young Prince Bobby Singh, "is a test of democracy! If the Maharajah can treat royalty like this, what hope can there be for the masses...
...migraines, to say nothing of frequent bannings and occasional confiscations, TLI now delivers some 400,000 copies of TIME each week to every corner of the earth, all before the issue date. Among these foreign subscribers, the most common name worldwide is Smith (it's Hansen in Scandinavia, Singh in Asia, Garcia in Latin America). For the most part the subscribers are in business, government and the professions. But whatever their names or jobs, these overseas TIME families tend to support our original assumption. Says the TLI history: "Our readers abroad are a remarkably homogeneous group-a kind...
...Added Singh: "I am equally against receiving aid from Communist countries." He was not opposed to U.S. firms selling machinery or industrial plants to India on "mutually suitable credit basis," or to U.S. capital investing in India "on our own terms"; he just did not want any more U.S. Government money. "Not only will most Americans welcome such a move, but it will increase our national prestige. Instead of being treated as 'ungrateful beggars,' we will be treated with more dignity and respect...