Word: khans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cinemactress Gene Tierney and Aly Khan (who was divorced last January by Rita Hay worth) were winding up a three-week holiday at his Irish "hiding place"-a 700-acre stud farm outside the tiny village of Kilcullen. Newsmen, dutifully noting the first morning that a maid was pulling the curtains in Gene's room while an electric razor buzzed four windows away, kept close watch but could report nothing more than a circumspect round of sightseeing through the countryside, hand-holding beside a lake, a visit to Dublin's Royal Theater and the prince's victory...
...town is 2½ miles from the airstrip, on a spit of land at the confluence of the Nam Khan and Mekong rivers. We reach it over a frail bamboo bridge floating on native dugout canoes. Here the jungle seems to be about to swallow the city's few houses and streets. Charming white temples and graceful stupas, elaborately decorated with legends and characters from the Ramayana relics of India, are everywhere crowded by tall green rustling palms, fragrant frangipani trees and scarlet-blossomed poincianas...
From his villa in Nice, France, where he has been writing his memoirs, the aging Ago Khan regretfully announced that he would be unable to attend the coronation in London. Said he: "My doctor forbade me to participate in the ceremony because it would be too tiring for my poor old heart to stand up so long...
...modern times." The World, and especially Russia, "invaded by Western armies overland in 1941, 1915, 1812, 1709 and 1610," has reason to mistrust the West. Toynbee avoids embarrassing this general thesis by any mention of the invasions of the West by the World, e.g., those of Islam and Genghis Khan...
...Mongol Empire, by Michael Prawdin. First U.S. publication of a classic history of Genghis Khan and his successors; originally (1938) published in German (TIME...