Word: khans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Karim Aga Khan IV, 22, and Harvard University had a mutually satisfying parting. He got a bachelor of arts degree (with honors in history); Harvard got from the serious-minded Aga Khan, spiritual head of some 20 million Ismaeli Moslems, $50,000 for scholarships to Middle Eastern students, preferably Moslems, over the next ten years. Said he: "I know now that I shall never regret the decision I took after succeeding to my grandfather's title to return and complete my studies at Harvard . . . This university is among the greatest inspirers of liberal scholarship in the modern world...
Regarding your May 18 article on Pakistan: In a country where 85% of the people are illiterate, and with enormous problems to grapple with to rapidly raise the economic standards of the general public or else succumb to Communism-dictatorship is the ideal form of government. General Ayub Khan is out to do for Pakistan what Ataturk has done for Turkey. Give him ten to 15 years, and he will make a new nation...
...moment of truth for the Geneva conference came in a "secret session" held at the elegant Villa Barakat, once the property of the late Aga Khan and now the temporary headquarters of French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. Drinks in hand (fruit juice for Russia's Gromyko), the foreign ministers of the Big Four and their assistants sat in awkward silence last week on Couve's terrace, looking down through a lovely spring evening at the waters of Lake Geneva. With all the vast range of East-West conflicts as their province, the assembled diplomats could find...
...quit the rackets they would not let him. "I did not give up smuggling," he pleaded, "because it was conducted at the point of a pistol-which continued to stay in my back even though the fingers holding the trigger changed." Outside court, the military regime of General Ayub Khan last week ordered a full police investigation of Kassim's charges...
...Khan announced that the College is expected to spend from its own funds an amount equal to his gift, so that $100,000 will be available for "Aga Khan Scholarships...