Word: khan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indira Gandhi and U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Also from the U.S., as guests and entertainers, came Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba.* There were balls, garden parties, receptions, the laying of cornerstones, and the presentation of gifts. Queen Elizabeth gave Kenyatta the royal lodge at Sagana; the Aga Khan turned over to him his own former residence; a group of U.S. businessmen donated a white Lincoln Continental...
Founded as a nationalized company in 1955 from the remnants of a rundown private airline, PIA ran up heavy financial losses and a horrendous safety record until Field Marshal Ayub Khan, after coming to power in 1958, installed a Pakistan Air Force commodore as PIA's boss. Commodore Nur Khan (no kin) fired seven senior captains, enforced strict discipline and turned PIA into one of the few nationalized airlines that make a profit. Khan gets no government subsidy and brooks no government meddling, runs PIA with a maximum of free enterprise...
...part of the world where domestic airline service is often shoddy, Khan dressed his stewardesses in fetching shalwar pantaloons, improved the service and the food. One of the few world-airline chiefs who can fly his own jets -and sometimes does-Khan has increased PIA's fleet to 20 planes and extended routes until they now stretch from Rangoon to New York. But he is proudest of PIA's vital role in linking Pakistan's divided nation-separated by 1,000 miles of India-and in bringing the advantage of modern transportation to a backward land. "Just...
Mohammed Zafrulla Khan, former president of the United Nations General Assembly and now Pakistan's ambassador to the international organization, will speak at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Inter-national Relations Council tonight at 8 p.m. in Burr...
Down with Boredom. Elsa was a great matchmaker; she claimed credit, among others, for getting together Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier, Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan. But that kind of love was not for her. Once when she was a girl, a young man (named Baron Alexander von Schroeder) kissed her on the mouth. "It's difficult to describe the feeling of revulsion that swept over me," she reported. As she discovered later: "I never liked the idea of sex. I wouldn't subject myself to it." In the numerous costume parties she attended, she often came...