Word: khans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Harold Albert Lamb, 69, gifted popularizer of history who chronicled the Oriental despots from Genghis Khan to Suleiman the Magnificent, a dedicated student of the Middle East who could read Turkish, Arabic and Persian and during World War II was a top OSS agent in the area, yet could also expand the three known facts about the life of Omar Khayyam into 316 pages of entertaining reading and turn out movie scripts (The Golden Horde, The Crusades) that delighted the heart of Cecil B. DeMille; of stomach cancer; in the Mayo Brothers' Clinic in Rochester, Minn...
...choice of gifts, Pakistan's President Ayub Khan scored a clear victory: he gave Jackie Kennedy a handsome ten" year-old bay gelding named Sardar, a trained jumper ideal for the fox hunting that she loves to pursue in the Virginia countryside. At Pakistan's ceremonious Lahore Horse and Cattle Show, she entered beside Ayub in a gold-trimmed carriage drawn by six steeds and escorted by 40 mounted horsemen in red coats. As 40,000 Pakistanis cheered, Jackie saw camels dance and salaam, prize cattle parade, horses two-step to drums. Eying a water buffalo that Ayub...
...even though Jackie occasionally managed to sleep late. But there was more to come. At week's end she flew into Udaipur for a restful stay at the palace of its Maharana before embarking on a five-day visit to Pakistan and its gallant, military-trained President Ayub Khan...
Eyes stare out of the darkness, so green and narrow they could have been admired by a lecherous khan. They move closer. A young black cat, just full grown, steps out of a bit of sewer pipe and starts to move through the city. Its gait is all leg and female, stealthy, preying. It walks across curbs and over the cracks in sidewalks. It hunts and bristles and pads along, looking. The eyes again. Another cat. Snarl. Fangs. Battle. A fierce toss of bodies, fearsome screeches, victory. The black cat moves on. All the while, words are appearing above, below...
Expounding a dubious theory linking politics and the weather. Ayub Khan continued: "Above all, you need a really cool and phlegmatic temperament, which only people living in cold climates seem to have. Also it requires a long period of probation. The British took 600 years, and even France, which gave birth to liberal philosophy, has not been able to work it. So don't let us kid ourselves and cling to cliches and assume that we are ready to work such a refined system...