Word: khan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khan kept a chateauful of guests, and one was Tracy Pelissier, but the girl in the Sept. 7 picture isn't. Correct identification: Marina Doria, Swiss international water skiing champion, who was giving His Highness pointers...
...Burma that would for the first time put the protection of their borders with Red China under army control. The U.S. promised and prepared to deliver airborne aid to the threatened kingdom of Laos (see below). Next week Nehru will confer with Pakistan's strongman, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, who is urging a united defense of the subcontinent. At last Indians are beginning to see China and not Pakistan as their main enemy. Ayub promised last week that Pakistan intends no military adventures against India and wants to settle even Kashmir peacefully...
Stifled Yawn. Greta Garbo slipped into a royal blue bikini and plunged into the Mediterranean from her Cap d'Ail villa. Sir Winston Churchill and Maria Callas, the prima of prima donnas, cruised offshore in the yacht of Greek Shipowner Aristotle Onassis. The young Aga Khan, fresh from Harvard, kept happy a chateauful of guests, including pretty Tracy Pelissier. Belgium's King Baudouin holidayed solemnly at Cabassol with his sister Princess Joséphine-Charlotte and her husband, Prince Jean of Luxembourg. The week before, Adlai Stevenson had been playing tennis at St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Moviemaker Darryl...
...Alexander the Great sacked Samarkand ("Place of Sugars"), a city already centuries old. Rebuilt, Samarkand became one of the central depots on the great Silk Road from Byzantium to China, and flourished as a brilliant seat of Arab civilization, only to be destroyed again by Genghis Khan. Near the end of the 13th century, Marco Polo reported it once more a "very great and eminent city," and 100 years later Tamerlane made it the capital of his empire, which stretched from the Hellespont to the Ganges, and from Siberia to the Persian Gulf...
...Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Yugoslavia, Pakistan, Ceylon, Iraq and the Sudan for average stays of three to five days, and he had worked as hard as a man could at his boondoggle. He dined with Nehru, got photographed with Nasser, talked with Sukarno, Tito, Pakistani President Mohammad Ayub Khan. His message everywhere was "positive neutralism," but it always came out as neutralism against...