Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Jamila, 18, second daughter of Pakistan's ramrod President Mohammed Ayub Khan; and Prince Amir Zaib, 24, second son of the Wali of Swat; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Ayub's eldest daughter, Naseem, is married to the Wali's first son, the Waliad Aurangzeb, heir apparent to Pakistan's princely state of Swat...
...accusation is based on fabrication. I am not guilty, only intellectually disobedient." But Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito takes a harsh view of intellectual disobedience ; his onetime heir apparent was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison...
Thonet Industries Inc. of Manhattan, heir to the century-old trademark, is now a bustling commercial furniture maker whose no-nonsense designs bear little kinship to bentwood. Somewhat surprised by all the excitement over vintage Thonet today, the firm nonetheless still "makes available" a modern version of the classic rocker, continues to manufacture the Vienna Chair (the familiar restaurant "upright") as well as the bentwood armchair that brought fame to the Thonet name and once moved Architect Le Corbusier to observe: "We believe that this chair, whose millions of representatives are used on the Continent and the two Americas, possesses...
...Outrageous!" trumpeted Erhard. At his insistence, West Germany's Cabinet discussed the possibility of punishing the automakers by cutting the tariffs on imported cars. But Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, never averse to taking would-be Heir Apparent Erhard down a peg, remained silent, and at week's end, despite continuing blasts from Erhard and the threat of three parliamentary investigations, the automakers still stood fast...
...father's grace. A student at London's Royal Ballet School, she got only reluctant permission from Charlie to go there-since he knows all too well the dangers that threaten pretty young girls in show business. Michael, 16, whom Chaplin regards as his artistic heir, goes to Geneva's International School; he speaks very little, and has the brooding look of Eugene O'Neill. Little Eugene Chaplin, 8, is known as Tadpole and is always talking, always in trouble. Charlie is a strict disciplinarian, and all seven children have felt the palm of his hand...