Word: khan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pakistan's Mohibullah Khan, 26: the U.S. Open Squash Racquets championship for the second year in a row, beating his cousin and former champion, Hashim Khan, 15-11, 15-10, 15-9; in Wilmington, Del. The Khans-and there are a dozen squash players in the family-have won the U.S. Open in nine of the last ten years...
...Karachi last week, a long motorcade streamed through the streets in celebration of Mohammed Ayub Khan's election as President of Pakistan. It was no small thing. Truckloads of Ayub supporters waved at the cheering crowds; auto-rickshas carried still more. In the rear were hundreds of wiry, turbaned Pathans from Ayub's own frontier district, who brandished clubs and joyfully fired homemade pistols...
...sorry beginning for Pakistan's first try at democracy since 1958, when Ayub Khan seized power in a military coup d'état. Under his benign but dictatorial eye, a new form of in direct democracy was conceived. The nation's voters last November elected 80,000 "basic democrats" who last week cast their ballots for a President...
...Ayub Khan won handily with 61% of the vote. Plucky Fatima Jinnah, sister of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the late father of Pakistan independence, took defeat badly. She snapped, "There is no doubt that these elections have been rigged." Of the massacre of her followers, she declared tartly, "Nowhere in the civilized world can such acts of barbarism be allowed to happen." Handsome Ayub Khan had been badly rattled by opposition attacks during the campaign. When he heard he had won, he cried, "Thank God! The country has been saved." In a nationwide broadcast, he took a conciliatory line. After thanking...
Presiding over this pleasure dome last week, Kublai Khan Mills was beginning to feel that everything was once again coming up roses. The Begum was using his Rolls-Royce, an oilman had borrowed his Bentley, and all seemed right with the world. The world, that is, of what Mills likes to call VIPIs (Very Important People Indeed). "I think we've made it," said Big John Mills. "Now where are we going to put the sauna...