Word: khans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pakistan raised diplomatic eyebrows by putting its money on horsy Playboy Aly Khan as its permanent delegate to the United Nations. Aly's appointment struck some as a consolation prize for his failure to succeed his father as the top (Aga) Khan. A citizen of Iran, he promised to take an "active interest...
...bonfire in his honor near the beach and tried to celebrate his arrival with the traditional Swedish long dance (they had to abandon it because of the sandy footing). At dinner the Indians (to whom Christmas is not a religious holiday) provided a group of bagpipers for entertainment. At Khan Yunis, the Colombians rigged up cardboard boxes that spouted artificial snow. Then Hammarskjold attended midnight Mass in an army tent, as buglers and drummers beside the altar played solemn rolls and flourishes at the elevation of the Host. In the morning, he went to services in the New England-style...
Submerging their other differences, 45 of the National Assembly's 80 members pledged themselves to support a common ballot, demanded that President Mirza name Republican Party Leader Malik Firoz Khan Noon, a onetime protege of Pakistan's famed Founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to form a caretaker government to rule until next year's general elections. If his 45-man majority stands firm and Prime Minister Noon brings about elections next year with a common ballot, Pakistan will have taken a long step along the road to political stability...
Such an analysis depends upon two questionable assumptions. First, it assumes that the Harvard degree produces the additional income of the Harvard alumnus. According to this theory, Karim Aga Khan makes 1,000,000 times as much as his stable boy because he went to Harvard, and the young genius from Slippery Rock gets richer than the idiot down the block because of the benign influence of the Harvard faculty...
...being Rita's fifth bridegroom, Bachelor Hill, now busy with a screen version of Separate Tables that will star Rita, avidly wants "Rita to find happiness when she marries again. She has had so much unhappiness in her life" (with Oilman Edward Judson, Actor Orson Welles, Prince Aly Khan and Crooner Dick Haymes). As usual when altar-bound. Bride-to-Be Hayworth was plucky and positive: "I have never been happier in my whole life...