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...said that they must agree to remember the hole in the floor, through which they could now see a great red pizza being quartered with a knife that, as Kafka observed, was surely a gift of the Khan to Marco Polo, as each of them over the years would tend to doubt his sanity remembering...
RAYMOND ARON, French historian: If you want to name a great conqueror, Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great. If you want a legitimate king who was at the same time a statesman and a military commander, Frederick II of Prussia...
...commissioned by Democratic politicians for private use; his clients included Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. The high-priced pulse taker never tried to equivocate when bearing bad news. "There is no point to the work," he once said, "if you're not telling the truth." · Died. Mohammed Ayub Khan, 66, imposing, soldierly former President of Pakistan; of a heart attack; in Islamabad, Pakistan. Trained at Britain's Sandhurst Royal Military College, Ayub rose to commander in chief of the Pakistani army and became president in 1958. He helped spur Pakistan's economic growth but did little...
Born. To Karim Aga Khan, 37, Harvard-educated spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems, who regard him as a 49th-generation direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed, and the Begum Aga Khan, 33, formerly Sarah Croker Poole, a British model: their third child, second_son; in Chambésy, Switzerland. Name: Hussain...
...jittery Western financiers, the huge cash surpluses built up by the Arab oil-producing nations look like a Khan-jar (Arab dagger) poised at the heart of international monetary stability. By shifting their funds from one currency to another, some moneymen fear, the sheiks could precipitate an unending round of monetary crises. Two weeks ago, it appeared for a moment that the Arabs had decided to unleash just such a monetary offensive. When highly exaggerated word that the Economic Council of the Arab League had voted to withdraw the estimated $10 billion that Arab nations have on deposit...