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From the Balcony. Narriman Sadek, 16, daughter of a civil servant, has been betrothed for the past five years to Zaki Hachem, 27, a Harvard-trained economic aide to the U.N. Secretariat. Narriman and Zaki had set their wedding day for Dec. 8, and a few days before, they went shopping for a ring at the Cairo store of Ahmed Nagib Pasha. Ahmed, who in his spare time helps out Farouk with new telephone numbers, told the young couple to come back next day. His Majesty hustled down to size up Ahmed's find from a concealed balcony. Narriman...
...Zaki, which had been hailed by the Cairo society editors as "the wedding of the year," has, of course, been called off, and 500 invitations have been canceled. Zaki charges that his apartment has been entered by Farouk's agents and that all letters and pictures of Narriman have been stolen; he has been followed by secret police. Nobody tried to put him in the forefront of a battle, but he says that he was offered the next worst thing: the ambassadorship to Russia. When he refused, he was told to get back to his job at Lake Success...
Flustered Egyptian diplomats tried to hush the Narriman story. The palace public-relations man announced that this talk about Farouk's marriage was "entirely premature . . . completely without foundation." But nobody denied that the King was going to marry Narriman...
...stunned Government finally asked Gandhi for terms. The upshot was a 6¼%, not a 25%, increase in taxes. Patel emerged from Bardoli with a new and exalted status. He received the unofficial title of "Sardar," meaning captain or leader, which he has carried ever since. (Lawyer K. F. Narriman was the first to call Patel "Sardar"; years later he and Patel quarreled and the Sardar forced Narriman out of Bombay politics...