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Divorced. John Robert Russell, 42, the 13th Duke of Bedford, who opened his 3,000-acre Woburn Abbey estate to the public (including nudists, on a strictly rental basis) to pay his taxes; by Lydia Yarde-Buller, 42, aunt of the Aga Khan; after 13 years of marriage, one son; in London...
Died. Amanullah Khan, 68, King of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, who led his country into the Third Afghan War in 1919, won independence from Great Britain, but ran into so much resistance when he tried to westernize Afghanistan that he was forced to abdicate; after a long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
Died. Mirza Ali Khan, 72, the Fakir of Ipi, leader of the fierce Pathan tribe in the rugged mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, who repeatedly raided the British between 1919 and 1947, got help at times from Afghanistan and the Axis powers, who were anxious to keep the British tied up; of a heart ailment; in his mountain home in Waziristan...
...Sometime Khan. A forbidding and formidable hulk of a man, Beckmann yet had a sardonic humor about himself. For those who attempted to commiserate with him over the troubles he had seen, Beckmann had a short answer: "I deserve trouble. I myself am a reincarnation of Genghis Khan. I too am rough." To get acquainted with him, Collector May took the simple step of commissioning a portrait. May recalls: "He spent two weeks getting to know me before he even made a sketch. Then there were two sittings of not more than a half hour each. Before he started...
...first gingerly experiment with popular elections since suspending his country's parliamentary regime 15 months ago, Pakistan's Strongman Mohammed Ayub Khan last week got an Elvis Presley-like response. Functioning as a kind of electoral college, close to 80,000 recently elected village councilmen were allowed to vote yes or no to the question: "Have you confidence in the President, Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan?" No less than 95.6% put their approving mark beside a smiling multi-clad picture of the field marshal. Those who did not trust the field marshal had the choice of checking...