Word: aga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Each Ismaili person must decide for himself on questions of Communism and Arabism" declared His Highness the Aga Kahn to a panel of newsmen on the CBS program "Face The Nation" at 5:30 p.m. yesterday. "I have final authority in religious matters," explained the Leverett House senior, "but in secular matters, I lead, and do not have absolute authority...
...varsity soccer team opens its season this afternoon against Tufts and the game will be one of experimentation for Crimson coach Bruce Munro. He has had to revamp his lineup several times because of an alarming number of injured personnel, including Karim Aga Khan, the starting outside left...
...marriage to Cassini, Gene could find no emotional stability. In 1953 she got a divorce, soon found herself in another romance with Aly Khan. Marriage appeared to be close, but it didn't work out. He rebuffed her plea to quit intercontinental fun and games; his father, the Aga Khan, sternly opposed another movie-actress marriage after Aly's divorce from Rita Hayworth. With her need for stability unmet. Gene's anxiety grew worse. In New York she walked out on a TV commitment to play Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House...
Surrounded by 3,000 cheering African subjects, Prince Karim, the Aga Khan IV, 21-year-old spiritual leader of 10 million Moslems, dedicated a new Nairobi hospital one day last week, then quietly announced his intention to return to Harvard. Before the end of his junior year, he had taken a leave of absence to attend the stricken Aga Khan III, then assumed the throne when his grandfather died in July 1957. Now, said he, "I decided I should lose no opportunity to equip myself for the future...
...Harvard, where snobbery is by brains and not by blood, the Aga Khan IV will be just another student, or, as young Stevenson wrote, just " 'K' as we soon came to call Karim." Indeed, the Harvard Yard has seen many princes come and go, without fuss, sometimes even without remembering them. In 1912 Prince Jaisinh Rao, son of the Gaekwar of Baroda, got a Harvard bachelor's degree, and in 1928 Prince Somdet Chao Fa Mahidol won his M.D. from the Harvard medical school. It was while the prince was a student at Harvard that...