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...father, the late Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 20 million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, forced him to give up two hazardous pastimes: steeplechase riding and auto racing. But Aly continued his pursuit of speed and danger: three skiing accidents nearly cost him a leg; when he was only 21, and without a pilot's license, he took his turn at the controls of a light plane in an unprecedented 10,000-mile flight from Bombay to Singapore and back. Aly Khan slew quantities of lions, tigers and water buffalo, but always on foot and never from the safety...
Worst Blow. When the Aga Khan died in 1957, he named Aly's Harvard-educated son Karim, 23, as head of the Ismaili sect. Close friends say that Aly was crushed at being passed over, that it was "the worst blow he had received since his mother died." It seemed to effect a change in Aly's behavior: he soon appeared at the United Nations as the Ambassador of Pakistan, where thousands of Ismailis live. Canada's U.N. Ambassador...
Divorced. John Robert Russell, 42, the 13th Duke of Bedford, who opened his 3,000-acre Woburn Abbey estate to the public (including nudists, on a strictly rental basis) to pay his taxes; by Lydia Yarde-Buller, 42, aunt of the Aga Khan; after 13 years of marriage, one son; in London...
Singer Miriam Makeba, a Xosa tribeswoman (full name: Zensi Miriam Makeba Qgwashu ogu vama yi keti le nenxgoma sittu xa saku aga ba ukutsha sithathe izitsha sizi khalu sivuke ngomso sizi chole ezo zinge knayo zinga bikho nfalo singamalamu singa mangamla nagithi*), is probably too shy to realize it, but her return to Africa would leave a noticeable gap in the U.S. entertainment world, which she entered a mere six weeks ago. Miriam Makeba, 27, has had no formal musical training, and a few years ago she still earned her living as a housemaid in Johannesburg...
...friends that we are not the jewelry concern in question." Black Starr & Gorham followed with a "not me" ad in the Times. The Times's Advertising Columnist Robert Alden reported that the jewelry buyer was Prince Sadruddin Khan, half brother of Aly Khan and uncle of the new Aga Khan. Though other New York jewelers know the name of the seller, for "ethical considerations" they cannot name him. But somebody must be talking, Alden concluded: "The word is that a stream of customers have been going into his shop and asking for their money back on purchases from...