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Died. Paul Humiston Alling, 52, first U.S. ambassador to Pakistan; of amoebic dysentery, contracted last year while at his post in Karachi; in Bethesda...
...Starting an airline for Pakistan between Karachi, Colombo, London and Singapore. Transocean is buying the planes in the U.S., training Pakistan crews at Oakland, and, while they are getting airborne, will fly the routes with its own planes and pilots. Transocean...
...million in the Indian subcontinent have come two symbols-a man of love and a man of hate. Last winter the man of nonviolence, Gandhi, died violently at the hands of an assassin. Last week the man of hate, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, at 71, died a natural death in Karachi, capital of the state he had founded. His devoted and equally fanatic sister, Fatima, was at his side; so was his daughter, Mrs. Dinah Wadia, whom he had disowned because she married a Parsee (as he had done before...
...Best Showman." Jinnah was born in Karachi in 1876 of a wealthy trading family; at 16 he went to England to study law. As an advocate of the Bombay High Court he was, according to a colleague, "the best showman of them all ... His greatest delight was to confound the opposing lawyer by confidential asides and to outwit the presiding judge in repartee...
Died. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, 71, Indian Moslem leader, first Governor General of Pakistan; of a heart ailment; in Karachi, Pakistan (see FOREIGN NEWS...