Word: khan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hossein Nasr 4G, of Iran, will act as President of the Society, and Yusuf Ibish 2G, of Syria, will be Secretary. Elected as Treasurer and assistant Secretary respectively were Abdul Haye Shahban 4G, of Egypt, and Bakhtiyar Ali Khan '59, of Pakistan...
Understandably reluctant to let tax collectors get at his fortune (estimated at $500 million), the late Aga Khan may have outsmarted himself and deprived his heirs of millions. While much of the half-billion was stored in such tax havens as Lichtenstein, Tangier and Switzerland, his heirs, according to a Paris gossipist, are hunting for the balance of about $100 million in safety deposit vaults of banks around the world, where the Aga often made deposits under assumed names, and in many investments-stocks, plantations, mines, real estate-that he made in the names of trusted go-betweens whose identities...
Sudden Outrage. Kashmir is one of the world's plague spots-like Algeria and Cyprus-which can be expected to erupt with violence, or at least violent language, just before a U.N. session opens. Last month Pakistani Foreign Minister Firoz Khan Noon charged that Russian military aircraft had been allowed to land in Indian Kashmir, and added, "I consider the whole of India to be a Russian air base." India's press countered this attack with the claim that the U.S. Air Force is carrying out a "feverish buildup" in the part of Kashmir held by Pakistan...
...tubes over his shoulder with the cyclic action of a machine gun, until he finally slowed down, devoted the last 20 minutes to adding only a touch of paint here and there. Total elapsed time: no minutes. Title: The Battle of Hakata (A.D. 1281, when the Japanese defeated Kublai Khan...
Married. Prince Sadruddin (Sadri) Khan, 24, younger son of the late Aga Khan III (and his third wife, Andrée Carron), uncle of the new Aga Khan IV; and Nina Sheila Dyer, 27, onetime London fashion model; he for the first time, she for the second; in Collonge-Bellerive, Switzerland...