Word: khan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, Iranian Princess Fatmeh Pahlevi, 21, regained her royal prerogatives when she remarried-this time in a Moslem ceremony-Californian Vincent Lee Hillyer, 24. Hillyer, who had renounced his Roman Catholic religion the week before, had the Moslem Ago Khan as official witness. Among the wedding guests: Rita Hayworth, who had a Moslem ceremony last year when she married Aly Khan. This week Hillyer and bride were off to Cannes, where he said he would finish a book titled Just Looking, Thanks...
...visiting Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, and his wife, the Begum, were learning about the American way of life in & around Chicago. One day the Begum, wearing her long-flowing red silk garara, visited a National Tea Co. market, shopped as carefully as any U.S. housewife, rolled a cart of groceries to the check-out counter...
...imagine what sort of reception my husband will get in your country," said Liaquat Ali Khan's wife last week. "Americans will probably think he is Rita Hayworth's brother-in-law or perhaps a distant cousin of the Shah of Iran." Liaquat Ali Khan, the 54-year-old Prime Minister of Pakistan, due to arrive in Washington this week, is not related to any Oriental potentates, but his power and influence are far greater than those of any princeling in the Islamic world...
While Mohamed Ali Jinnah performed the pyrotechnics which achieved the separation of Pakistan as a state in the 1947 partition of India, Lawyer Liaquat did the hard behind-the-scenes work in the Moslem League. With Jinnah's death, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan inherited his power...
...Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister's black-haired, bouncy wife, is the daughter of a Hindu Brahman turned Christian. She herself became a devout Moslem. To free Moslem women from purdah, she organized the white-pajamaed, pigtailed Pakistan Women's National Guard. "See these women?" she says, "they were in purdah once. Do you see any purdah now?" Married 17 years, Liaquat and the Begum have two sons, Ashraf, 12, and Akbar, 9, both aspiring musicians...