Word: khan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pipes & Pathans. Six hours out of Turkey, he landed in the brassy, brilliant sun at Karachi's airport to be greeted by Pakistan's President, blunt, Sandhurst-trained General Mohammed Ayub Khan. Together they rode into the city in an open white Cadillac, past half a million cheering people-women in veils or tentlike burgas, tens of thousands of schoolchildren waving flags, armed sailors and soldiers carefully spaced to prevent unruly exuberance. Down the freshly cleaned streets they drove, past prairies of rubble still redolent with the smell of refugees, even though special squads had worked all night...
...strengthened France's moral posture that even Saudi Arabia's volatile Ahmad Shukairy, wildest of Arab orators, felt obliged to express his "esteem, tribute, and high regard" for the general. Seeing that they were not mustering enough support, the Afro-Asians, led by Pakistan's Aly Khan, softened their resolution even more (ALGERIAN REBELS RUN UNDER ALY KHAN'S COLORS, headlined one Paris paper...
...Inquiry on Palestine (1946) clamored vociferously for the creation of Israel, blasted the Truman State Department in a book (Behind the Silken Curtain) for what he considered its vacillation over Palestine; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Fleet-footed Bart Crum grabbed headlines in 1953 by chasing Aly Khan around the world to win a $1,000,000 divorce settlement for his client Rita Hayworth. But his real forte lay in endlessly championing a multitude of causes, some of them conflicting. Though he had once served as counsel to the Hearst publications, he published New York City...
...Fisher's singing husband opened at the Waldorf's Empire Room in Manhattan last week, she decided to make it a party. To the midnight show (the earlier dinner show is considered on the square side) she asked 72 guests, including Gloria Vanderbilt, Ingemar Johansson, aging Aly Khan and his durable friend, French Model Bettina, Arthur Loew Jr. (of the movie Loews) and his bride, who is Tyrone Power's widow. A strict seating plan enforced by flacks and headwaiters deployed the guests at six reserved tables, each equipped with three massive tins of caviar and assorted...
...suspense mounted. Lights were extinguished, musicians scrambled to their chairs on the bandstand. Eddie's father, Joe Fisher, a retired suitcase manufacturer from Philadelphia, turned to Aly Khan. "Prince," said he, "have some caviar. Me, I like herring." Aly nodded gravely. "Yes, Monsieur Fisher père," he replied, "when a herring is good, it is very, very good, but when it is not good, it is awful...