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From London last week came details of Aly Khan's will, which, under "the Shia Moslem law, which is my personal law," ordered several specific bequests, then granted two-thirds of the remainder of the estimated $800 million estate to heirs, including Princess Yasmin, 10, his daughter by Second Wife Rita Hayworth. Among the specifics: $280,000 and his Chantilly, France, villa to elegant French Fashion Model Bettina, 35, his constant companion since 1955; $14,000 to Sybilla Szczeniowska, 38, a blonde New York fashion designer who met Aly 20 years ago in Cairo...
...nation changed its name officially in 1935 from Persia to Iran, a variation of the word Aryan, one of its principal peoples. This was done in part to point up the ethnic contrast with its Semitic neighbors. Though Moslem, Iran is not Arab, a fact that has saved it from the Nasser-sponsored troubles that have rocked the rest of the Middle East. -Far more beautiful: the ancient tiled mosque city of Isfahan to the south, which in the 16th century reign of Shah Abbas was a greater city than Elizabethan London...
...slack-chinned, 130-year-old Qajar dynasty by force of arms. A wiry, hot-tempered martinet, the old Shah set out to manhandle Iran into the mod ern world, and he did not mind machine-gunning obstreperous peasants to do it. He abolished the veil, and when a Moslem imam criticized the Queen for not wearing one, roared up to the mosque in a convoy of armored cars, marched in, and kicked the priest in the stomach...
...most Western wives this outburst of female chauvinism came as a shocking surprise. The mating of East and West has generally worked out well in Pakistan, providing the alien bride 1) adopts Islam, 2) accepts the constraints of Moslem society, e.g., never talks to her husband's male friends, 3) learns to wear a sari or salivar (baggy pants) and kameez (a sort of knee-length blouse. "Dressed like that," sighed a Moslem dowager of her son's sari-clad wife, "how could she be anything...
Instead, he sang the praises of the hand-picked "Mutual Help" Assembly with which he has replaced Indonesia's former elected Parliament and glowed over the new National Front, a "nonpolitical" movement consisting of Sukarno's own Nationalist Party, the inept Moslem Teacher's Party and the dazed Communists, who find Sukarno even more disruptive than they are. The National Front, Sukarno predicted, would always reach unanimous agreement on everything "without taking votes." Then, as a lesson to those who still thought there might be something in voting, he abruptly announced a ban against two of Indonesia...