Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, Iranian Princess Fatmeh Pahlevi, 21, regained her royal prerogatives when she remarried-this time in a Moslem ceremony-Californian Vincent Lee Hillyer, 24. Hillyer, who had renounced his Roman Catholic religion the week before, had the Moslem Ago Khan as official witness. Among the wedding guests: Rita Hayworth, who had a Moslem ceremony last year when she married Aly Khan. This week Hillyer and bride were off to Cannes, where he said he would finish a book titled Just Looking, Thanks...
...Shoes in Cairo. "Cacoola," as it is locally known, was flooding Egypt like a second life-giving Nile. Egyptians, barred by Moslem law from alcoholic refreshments, used to buy sickly sweet, dirty concoctions from street vendors. Now they are enthusiastically consuming nearly 350 million cool, clean Cokes a year. Barely five years after Cacoola appeared in Egypt, the country is dotted with shiny red coolers, many of them presided over by Egypt's oldtime ice merchants who, thanks to the raised living standard caused by this minor economic revolution, now wear shoes for the first time in human memory...
While Mohamed Ali Jinnah performed the pyrotechnics which achieved the separation of Pakistan as a state in the 1947 partition of India, Lawyer Liaquat did the hard behind-the-scenes work in the Moslem League. With Jinnah's death, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan inherited his power...
...Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister's black-haired, bouncy wife, is the daughter of a Hindu Brahman turned Christian. She herself became a devout Moslem. To free Moslem women from purdah, she organized the white-pajamaed, pigtailed Pakistan Women's National Guard. "See these women?" she says, "they were in purdah once. Do you see any purdah now?" Married 17 years, Liaquat and the Begum have two sons, Ashraf, 12, and Akbar, 9, both aspiring musicians...
...Iran, 21, U.S. educated (Converse College, S.C.) daughter of the late Shah Mohamed Riza Pahlevi, youngest sister of the ruling Shah of Iran; and Vincent Lee Hillyer, 24, son of a Los Banos, Calif, doctor; in Civitavecchia, Italy. Although Hillyer offered to become an Iranian citizen and a Moslem, the Shah inexorably divested Fatmeh of all her royal privileges for marrying without his consent...