Word: aga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin, a TIME correspondent learned about Mayor Willy Brandt's late-hour habits while talking far into the night with the man whose strong nerves are now being put to the test by Russia. Correspondents in Rome and Cairo filed stories on the weird assault on the former Aga Khan's widow. In Ghana, a reporter was on hand to see what may prove to be the historic meeting between two of Africa's rising young leaders, the Prime Ministers of Ghana and Guinea, a unique merger of independent nations once British and French...
...long, hardly conventional weekend from college, the Aga Khan, Harvard senior, flew to London, stopped at The Cygnet's House finishing school to call for 17-year-old Sylvia Casablancas, daughter of a Mexican businessman. Driving on to Woburn Abbey, the Aga and his possible Begum quietly visited his aunt, the Duchess of Bedford...
Plans for the Islamic Society's mosque in Cambridge have come to a stand-still, Islamic Society President Yusif Ibish 3G reported yesterday. A delay in the promised gift of Prince Sadruddin '55, son of the late Aga Khan, has forced the Society to relinquish its proposed site at Darton and Concords Sts., since the Prince held an option on the land...
...Aga explained that Ismailis, wherever they are located in the Middle East, must live harmoniously with other sects and with other peoples. "The Ismaili community operates its own banks, schools, and hospitals, but does not restrict its services to members of the sect," he declared. It is the Aga's task to seal together the various communities contained within the religion. "A Muslim leader, unlike a Western religious leader, cannot be stationary and withdrawn...
Dividing his time between courses and administrative work, the Aga spends as much as ten hours or as little as one hour daily running the religious affairs of twenty million Ismailis. He refused to name a definite headquarters for his operations after he leaves the College, but declared, "It would be impossible for me to stay in this country...