Word: singhs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Maharajah Sir Pratap Singh, 60, member of India's fabulously rich aristocracy, whose income, estimated at $160,000 a week in 1951, ranked him among the world's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in London. A whirlwind life of fast planes and thoroughbred horses was the maharajah's style, and as prince of Baroda State, he played the role to the hilt, even after Nehru stripped him of his title for misusing $5,000,000 of the state's funds...
They laughed when an Illinois farmer reported that he had significantly increased his crop yield by serenading corn plants with Rhapsody in Blue. And few believed Indian Botanist T.C.N. Singh when he said that a shrill electric bell speeded the germination of seeds and that classical Indian violin and flute selections promoted crop growth. Or the Australian fruit farmer who swore that he had raised bigger and better bananas by bombarding them with a loud, constant bass note broad cast from loudspeakers set up among the trees...
Died. Tara Singh, 82, crusty champion of religious and political rights for India's 8,000,000 Sikhs; of a heart attack; in Chandigarh, India. Militant leader of the fiercely proud Sikhs since the early 1930s, Singh stirred up many a political fracas, was jailed by both the British and Nehru as he fought and fasted for the creation of a separate Punjabi-speaking state. The partition of the Punjab state in 1966 failed to satisfy the white-bearded leader who then went to jail for the last time still clamoring for independence...
...thing that can drive you out of your mind." She selects details oddly, noting explicitly that her mother's gun was a Walther automatic but remarking about her first marriage only that it ended "for reasons of a personal nature." Neither her exile nor her last husband, Brajesh Singh, whom she loved and mourned, are mentioned in the book. She says she "cannot live without God . . . the ultimate triumph of good over evil." Yet her theology finds no object in her story...
...third husband, Brajesh Singh, who died last fall in Moscow of a heart attack: "As you lay in your coffin in our dismal Moscow crematorium, strangers came up to look at your calm, beautiful face. It was very cold, and we stood there in fur coats ... all of you, my dear friends from the unfortunate Institute of World Literature...