Word: aga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Understandably reluctant to let tax collectors get at his fortune (estimated at $500 million), the late Aga Khan may have outsmarted himself and deprived his heirs of millions. While much of the half-billion was stored in such tax havens as Lichtenstein, Tangier and Switzerland, his heirs, according to a Paris gossipist, are hunting for the balance of about $100 million in safety deposit vaults of banks around the world, where the Aga often made deposits under assumed names, and in many investments-stocks, plantations, mines, real estate-that he made in the names of trusted go-betweens whose identities...
Married. Prince Sadruddin (Sadri) Khan, 24, younger son of the late Aga Khan III (and his third wife, Andrée Carron), uncle of the new Aga Khan IV; and Nina Sheila Dyer, 27, onetime London fashion model; he for the first time, she for the second; in Collonge-Bellerive, Switzerland...
...Aga. "Unless he changes a great deal," says one of his former teachers of the new Aga Khan, "he'll never make a playboy." "I'm not much for sport," says Prince Karim himself. A shy, serious, 20-year-old member of Harvard's Class of '58, who shared a room during his freshman year with Adlai Stevenson's second son John Fell, Khan is a member of Harvard's exclusive Hasty Pudding Club and a straight A student who majors in Oriental history and grinds hard. "He doesn't throw his weight...
When not in college, Kay (as he is called at Harvard) lives in London's Eaton Square with his mother, the former Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller, who, according to the late Aga, is an "Englishwoman of beauty, charm, wit and breeding." From there last week he hurried to Switzerland to his dying grandfather's bedside. Tense and nervous after the announcement of his succession, he took his seat on a white satin throne to receive a delegation of Moslem dignitaries from India, Pakistan, Singapore and East Africa. "My religious duties," he said, "start as of today...
Died. Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, the Aga Khan III, 79, leader of some 20 million Moslems of the Ismaili sect; of a heart attack; at his villa in Versoix, Switzerland (see FOREIGN NEWS...