Word: ayub
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...with French wall coverings of tapestry patterns, was considered perfect as it was. In the foyer are displayed some dazzling mementos of the Johnsons' recent travels, e.g., a painting of sampans, from South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem, a Gandharan head from Pakistan's President Ayub. From Texas came the Johnson collection of paintings and drawings by their favorite Texas artists-Porfirio Salinas, who specializes in scenes of Texas' hill country, and Kelly Fearing (birds). Says Lady Bird, who mounted a few of the Texas works near the front door: "I want to see them...
...Kennedy standards of hospitality, the program planned for Jawaharlal Nehru's official U.S. visit this week is as austere as vegetable curry. Wryly mindful of the pomp and circumstance unlimbered for his old foe, Pakistan's Ayub Khan, India's Prime Minister expressly requested Washington to forgo "medieval splendor." From a private luncheon with President Kennedy at Newport to an address before the U.N. General Assembly, from Broadway's Camelot to California's Disneyland, Nehru's crowded schedule barely left him time to change the perennial red rose on his achkan tunic...
...idol is Pakistan's Sandhurst-trained soldier-boss, Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, who shares the same jaundiced view of democracy available too soon in a largely illiterate nation. For weeks, Pak and his fellow junta leaders, all soldiers, studied Ayub's techniques and pondered the advice of the new U.S. ambassador in Seoul, Samuel Berger. Berger's practical counsel: Hang on to power if you will, but give the people some timetable for a return of democracy. Pak has done just that. Last week he announced that the reins of government will indeed be handed back...
...reference to his comment that "People think Nehru is thinking, but actually he is in a trance," I think Ayub wishes that Nehru were in a trance. If there is anyone for restoring peace, freedom and unity in India, it is Nehru. If there is anyone who has stimulated the Indian people for economic growth, it is Nehru. Being an Indian, I ought to know...
...York, star campaigner for John Kennedy in Spanish-speaking East Harlem; in the crash of a single-engined taxi plane; near New York City's La Guardia Airport; as she was returning to her Southampton summer home, shortly after helping her husband say goodbye to visiting Pakistani President Ayub Khan at Idlewild...