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Prince Karim Aga Kahn '58, leader of 20 million Ismaili Muslims, met with advisory committees from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) yesterday to discuss the use of an $11.5 million grant he made to the two universities last April...
...program] spans an enormous area of the world and an enormous area in time," the Aga Kahn said last night. "It will have to address itself to teaching faculty in other countries...
...Aga Kahn's money will endow a chair at Harvard, one at MIT, and a visiting professorship and assistant protessorship at each university, as well as expanded information programs at their libraries and museums. It will also finance exchange programs and a fellowship program for doctoral students...
...receivers are expected to reject Murty's latest offer. He charges that they have been under pressure all along to favor the Aga Khan's bid, which was well below what a public auction might have realized. The prince got some first-class mares, Murty says, but still was not satisfied. "He wanted to corner the market on the Boussac mares." The Aga Khan's reponse: "I don't see why I should be heaped with insults just because Murty took a bad business risk." Had Murty "made a more reasonable bid in the beginning, none...
French breeders are privately pleased to see Murty defying the Aga Khan and his pervasive influence in the French horse-racing world, but they do not give the American much chance of success. For his part, Murty is preparing to file lawsuits in the U.S. against not only the two French officials but also a representative of the receivers and the Aga Khan himself. Growls Murty: "I've never come across such a goddam swindle in all my life...