Word: khans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ovations were for a silvery-haired woman of 71 who has the fresh face of a young girl and the sharp tongue of an impatient schoolmistress. In next month's national election, she is challenging Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, and the tough field marshal has never had to cope with anything quite like her. Miss Jinnah was clearly getting under his skin. "She is an old recluse and weak-minded," said Ayub. "If you vote for her, you will be inviting chaos...
Heads on a Pole. Khan found himself suddenly in the debt of another aspirant to his thankless job. Ky's group demands that Khanh clean house on all "corrupt, dishonest and counterrevolutionary" army officers, civil servants and profiteers-and threatens Khanh's ouster if those rather sweeping conditions are not met. But who is to say who, in all of South Viet Nam, is "corrupt, dishonest and counter-revolutionary"? Now, in addition to the steady pressures exerted on him by Catholics and Buddhists, Punch Toy Premier Khanh faces the even more random fists of self-seeking Young Turks...
Pakistan's President Ayub Khan once frankly declared that his country wasn't ready for parliamentary democracy because it requires a "cool and phlegmatic temperament that only people living in cold climates seem to have." Accord ingly, only 80,000 "basic democrats"-out of a total population of 100 million -are allowed to vote for the President and legislature, and Ayub has jailed his most outspoken critics...
...Cross charity gala in Monte Carlo, such celebrities as the Begum Aga Khan and Cinemactor David Niven were nicely sprinkled amidst 1,000 unknowns who paid $75 to dance and watch the Bluebell Girls of Paris prance. To the sprinkle, hélas, was added a spatter and then a downpour. The Prince looked a trifle Rainier than usual, but Princess Grace, 34, remained smilingly in place to the end of the show. Noblesse was scarcely obliged to make so gracious a gesture-what with a third addition to the royal family due in Monaco next February...
...thriving cities where the art was fashioned-Marlik, Shapur, Kashan, Nishapur, Tepe Hissar-have crumbled into oblivion. The fabled rulers and scourges of Persia-Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan-are dust. But a woman's bronze bracelet, a golden goblet, a statue of an ibex with circleted horns remain to testify to the enduring victory that art wins over time...