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Reassured by the U.S. pledge to defend its allies, Pakistan's President Ayub Khan warned Moscow: "We will not be browbeaten." Even the Indian press, while chiding Ike for not keeping the Pentagon under tighter rein, showed an appreciation of U.S. worldwide military responsibilities unheard of in New Delhi's neutralism in the days before Red China began nibbling at India's borders...
...Khan's longest flirtation was with death...
...father, the late Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 20 million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, forced him to give up two hazardous pastimes: steeplechase riding and auto racing. But Aly continued his pursuit of speed and danger: three skiing accidents nearly cost him a leg; when he was only 21, and without a pilot's license, he took his turn at the controls of a light plane in an unprecedented 10,000-mile flight from Bombay to Singapore and back. Aly Khan slew quantities of lions, tigers and water buffalo, but always on foot and never from the safety...
Tarts & Trollops. Women are traditionally the warrior's relaxation. Aly Khan had a fastidious dislike of tarts and trollops, which made things difficult for the married men of his acquaintance. His wedding to his first wife, Joan Guinness, came after a divorce action by her Member of Parliament husband, who named Aly as corespondent. His second marriage, to Rita Hayworth, involved a round-the-world courtship that was faithfully recorded in newspaper headlines. With his famed charm, his solicitous attentions, and cascades of flowers, telegrams, parties and tete-a-tetes, he laid siege to a notable clutch of beauties...
Strangled Voice. Envious rivals complained that his success was due only to fabulous wealth (an estimated $800 million), a legendary name and a romantic background. Superficially they seemed right: Aly Khan was short (5 ft. 6 in.), balding, plump, and indifferent about clothes. His only physical assets were dark, liquid eyes and an almost Satanic vitality which could be refueled with as little as three hours' sleep...