Word: khans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Khan, 38, deserted the cabanas of Southern France for a California house near one of the Far West's natural wonders, Rita Hayworth...
...royal entry a prayer. Said she: "I think I should back My Love." So did most of the 400,000 fans lining the track at Doncaster, England, for last week's St. Leger (rhymes with quaint ledger). My Love was the 7-to-4 favorite; the Aga Khan's mahogany three-year-old had already won the Epsom Derby and the French Grand Prix...
...Rita Hayworth. They kissed in the lobby, then settled down for a day of play, ending with a glorious evening in a Cannes nightclub and buckets of champagne. When Orson had to go to Rome on business, Rita wept but gamely went out to dinner that night with Aly Khan, eldest son of the Aga ("Richest man in the world") Khan...
...Epsom Downs, for the second straight year, a French horse won the English Derby, the race that Britons cherish above all others. One of the largest crowds in racing history (an estimated 700,000 people*), saw My Love carry home the chocolate & chartreuse silks of the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of millions of Ismailite Moslems, ahead of the largest Derby field (32) in 86 years. Bubbled the fabulously rich, rotund Aga Khan, who had bought a half-interest in the horse only a few weeks ago: "I am delighted." Said one Frenchman, who came over for the race by boat...
...recent months. India and Pakistan drifted toward war in Kashmir. Religious feelings still ran high from the autumn massacres in the Punjab; Sikh and Hindu refugees demanded revenge against Pakistan, and were forcing Moslems out of their homes. War fever caught on in Pakistan, whose Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan hopefully exclaimed: "Every Pakistani is an atom bomb in himself...