Word: khan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days, .the Aga Khan had been sitting in the lobby keeping an eye on the door, waiting to greet Farouk. For two days, aging Sacha Guitry, 65, playwright-playboy, in green tam-o'-shanter and Scottish plaid mantle, had been sitting on the opposite side of the lobby, ready with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx...
...Russia's yakking Jacob Malik (see cover), Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb demanded scornfully: "Are we really to believe that the boys from Iowa or Colorado who are now sitting in foxholes near Chin-ju . . . are out, like Genghis Khan, to enslave the world? Show me any one of these U.S. soldiers, Mr. President, who would rather reign in Outer Mongolia than go back to Seattle, and I will gladly concede your point about 'imperialist America.' Until then...
...Rome's open-air opera in the Baths of Caracalla, two well-lighted Hollywood stars attended a performance of Verdi's Aïda. At the end of the first act, the audience spotted Princess Aly (Rita Hayworth) Khan sitting in the first row, excitedly howled "Viva Bellissima Rita!" The Princess, wearing a plain white evening gown embellished with white flowers, rose, smiled and bowed to her admirers. No one seemed to notice Signora Roberto (Ingrid Bergman) Rossellini, who kept quietly to herself in the tenth...
...Boston hospital, Pakistan's Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and the Begum were recuperating from their operations (hers was gallstones, his goiter). Before starting for home, the Begum had one worry: would her two sons be too chubby to get into the Hopalong Cassidy outfits she has bought them...
...Liaquat Ali Khan, who visited the U.S. during the spring...