Word: aly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some blue-eyed devil." With only a letter of the alphabet to serve as a surname, Muslims with the same given name add numbers before the X to keep one another sorted out. There is, for example, a James 67X. There are, however, Muslims with such surnames as Ali or Shabazz...
...loathsome on the slopes. Down the steepest, iciest trails they schuss, knees straight, skis two feet apart-and they never seem to fall down. (How can they, with a center of gravity only inches from the snow?) Nonetheless, adult snow bunnies, floundering out of their sitzmarks on the Abe Ali slopes of the Zagros Mountains, 42 miles from Teheran, cast a friendly eye on one four-year-old skiing in the brilliant sunshine. After all, he was the son of the Shah of Iran, Crown Prince Reza...
Ayub Khan won handily with 61% of the vote. Plucky Fatima Jinnah, sister of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the late father of Pakistan independence, took defeat badly. She snapped, "There is no doubt that these elections have been rigged." Of the massacre of her followers, she declared tartly, "Nowhere in the civilized world can such acts of barbarism be allowed to happen." Handsome Ayub Khan had been badly rattled by opposition attacks during the campaign. When he heard he had won, he cried, "Thank God! The country has been saved." In a nationwide broadcast, he took a conciliatory line. After thanking...
...Stick. White-haired Miss Jinnah, 71, the candidate of five ragtag and usually disunited opposition parties, was picked mainly because she was the sister and confidante of the late revered Mohammed Ali Jinnah, father of his nation's independence. But Pakistan's response to her razor-tongued attacks on Ayub's highhanded ways has surprised and shocked the government. Students throughout the nation staged angry protest marches against the regime, and at least one demonstrator was killed by police in Karachi. DOWN WITH THE AYUB DICTATORSHIP, cried posters in the East Pakistan city of Dacca, where students...
Next he was the sneering champion in Miami last February hooting: "Hypocrites! Whaddya say now, huh? Who's the greatest now?" And then he was the mysterious Black Muslim, Muhammad Ali, visiting the United Nations, stumping Africa, huddling with Nkrumah in Ghana...