Word: khans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merchants in Cairo's sprawling Khan-el-Khalilee bazaar selected the winner of their Best Customer of the Year award: former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, 50, who visited Egypt in June. "He did not bargain," explained Shopkeeper Ali Farag. "He seemed concerned with the appearance of things, he was not interested in the materials of which they were made." Nixon's reward: an inscribed silver tray. Back home in Manhattan, the puzzled winner recalled only that he did "lots of handshaking" at the bazaar. "Mrs. Nixon and the girls did most of the buying...
Introducing itself as a guide "for tourists who own no oil wells in Texas, and are unrelated to the Aga Khan," $5 a Day sets a chatty, no-nonsense pace that struck oil with 15,000 readers when it first appeared in 1957, this year is on its way to a record sale of 150,000. It leaves descriptions of the Louvre or Westminster Abbey to others, concerns itself single-mindedly with practicalities -the cheapest ways of getting to Europe and moving around once there, how to rent a bicycle in Copenhagen, how to read a menu in Italian...
...Nassar Khan, operations manager of the Shell Oil Storage and Distributing Company of Pakistan, commented more fully on the economic situation in Pakistan. In both east and West Pakistan there is almost no industry and few schools or hospitals. There are shortages of everything but unskilled manpower. Since partition the country has "survived on faith alone." But "while in times of stress the people can stand alone, they can't solve their problems alone," he said...
There is however, a dynamic trend towards economic cooperation regardless of political problems. Successful projects have already been undertaken in this field. Mr. Khan stated that the key for both countries lies in undertaking joint projects leading to a loose regional planning commission. International cooperation in areas of transportation and utilization of natural resources is worth exploring and has already proved fruitful...
Marxism pretends that it raises people above race and nation, but Moscow and Peking are divided by racial hostility and memories of conflict, which would persist even if ideological differences could be ironed out. Russia has never forgotten the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan, which swept west from Mongolia in the 13th century, conscripting Volga boatmen into the Khan's army and forcing local princes to kowtow. When, after 200 years, the Mongol Empire collapsed, the newly united Russians lost no time in getting even...