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PAKISTAN'S President Mohammed Ayub Khan might well embrace that melancholy observation as his political epitaph. He had promised to renounce power on the expiration of his presidential term next year, and meanwhile to restore parliamentary democracy to his disturbed land. Far from calming the civil disorders racking Pakistan, his renunciation intensified the dissensions threatening to tear apart the fragile unity of East and West Pakistan, and led to still more bloody rioting. Last week, with the disruption beyond his control, Ayub abruptly departed, turning over to the army the world's fifth most populous nation. His voice...
...drawing many of all ages and fortunes now. And so he was killed in his first fight against the Boers. He had a queer presentiment of impending fate, for he had spoken a good deal to us of the chances of death, and had even selected his own epitaph, so that on the little wooden cross which stands at the foot of Bastion Hill-the hill he himself took and held-there is written: "Is it well with the child? It is well...
...something good in me." Nursing a ventilated chest, Stewart staggers by to add that old Dino "always wanted the right things" but somehow "it was always hard for him to see the light at the end of the trail." And so, fans, ever true to the old Hollywood epitaph, they died with their boots in their mouths...
...Keller died in her home at Easton, Conn. Soon after entering college, she wrote: "A potent force within me, stronger than the persuasion of my friends, had impelled me to try my strength by the standards of those who see and hear." Her success in that test is her epitaph...
...January, Dock of the Bay has already sold 1,400,000 copies, and was No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart last week for the fourth straight week. "All this acclamation for Otis is new," says Atlantic Records Executive Vice President Jerry Wexler. "It's his epitaph, and it proves that a singer can do his own thing and still be commercially successful. Otis is tremendously responsible for the fact that so much of the young white audience now digs Soul the way the black does." In the vaults are 40 or so sides that...