Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ahmed Abboud Pasha, 74, Egypt's richest businessman in the days before Nasser's "Arab socialism," a minor merchant's son who started out as a civil engineer but soon decided that there were more piasters in trade, in the 1940s and '50s piled up a $100 million empire in chemicals, paper, shipping, sugar and cotton, only to have it all nationalized by Nasser in 1961; of heart and kidney ailments; in London...
...largely vanished. General Mohammed Naguib. the 1952 revolution's first leader, who served for two years as a front for Nasser and was then deposed, still lives quietly in a Cairo villa near the Nile and is permitted to move fairly freely about the city. Old Nahas Pasha and other former Wafdist enemies of the new regime remain in their homes, which, in most cases, they have been allowed to keep...
...Ceezee and Winston live simply in Palm Beach in a four-room apartment over a converted garage, occasionally entertaining small groups of friends in restaurants. Between times, when the mood seizes them, they take off for Paris, London or, as they did last winter, Egypt. There a bedazzled pasha presented Ceezee with a greyhound, which she gratefully accepted as a welcome addition to her traveling retinue of dogs (two Labrador retrievers, a miniature schnauzer, a toy poodle...
...foremost playground and financial center in the Eastern Mediterranean, Beirut is choked with well-heeled pashas, politicians and oil sheiks from Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait-most of them distrustful of cash and preferring concrete investment. In recent years the Arab millionaires have sunk $83 million into Beirut apartment houses. The Kuwaiti sheik who tools past his ten-story property in an air-conditioned Lincoln is delighted that he has converted his money into something solid-even though it may be half empty. "Why should I lower my rents and let the poor people in?" asked one pasha...
When Lloyd George's career faded in the '20s, it was not just that history had passed him by in the mass move of the discontented vote from liberal radicalism to trade union socialism: Lloyd George was too busy being a pasha to be a pundit or a prophet. Fame, money, wit, his bounderish bounce and white-maned, apple-cheeked handsomeness proved catnip to women, and he maintained what his son calls a "modern seraglio" at Churt, his princely estate in Surrey. On one of his increasingly rare visits to the old man's home Richard answered...