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...public speech and private chat, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan had proved himself the most outspoken visiting statesman Washington had heard in years. Some found the frankness refreshing, but most diplomats were appalled at his bald attempts to downgrade India and India's Nehru in U.S. esteem...
...star campaigner for John Kennedy in Spanish-speaking East Harlem; in the crash of a single-engined taxi plane; near New York City's La Guardia Airport; as she was returning to her Southampton summer home, shortly after helping her husband say goodbye to visiting Pakistani President Ayub Khan at Idlewild...
Died. George Criticos. 77, Greek-born friend of royalty and porter to the famous for more than 45 years at London's Ritz Hotel, who in 1932 chaperoned the then 21-year-old Aly Khan on a three-month American junket, and later moonlighted as his bet runner, placing more than $700,000 on the horses during the prince's last 27 years; of heart attack; in London. Criticized Criticos in his autobiography: "Millionaires are not usually very happy people, I have found. They're too full of worries about their wealth and health...
When starchy Strongman Mohammed Ayub Khan, 54, stepped from his green and white Boeing 707 at Washington's Andrews Air Force Base last week, U.S. officials were well aware that they had come to meet a talkative tiger. Days before in London, the plain-spoken President of Pakistan had demonstrated his old soldier's scorn for diplomatic niceties, had loudly broadcast his doubts about U.S. policy in Southeast Asia and threatened to "reexamine" his country's SEATO and CENTO commitments. At planeside, his grey guardsman's mustache bristling, Ayub was terse and blunt. "We naturally take...
...real and tangible advantages of Commonwealth membership did not exist, the Commonwealth itself might fall apart." Ceylon asked for special guarantees for its vital tea trade, which makes up 60% of its exports. The cheeriest support Britain got anywhere in the Commonwealth came from Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, who forthrightly said, "I think it would be a good thing if Britain joined the Common Market.'' His reason: it would strengthen Europe and the West against Communism...