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Married. Prince Sadruddin (Sadri) Khan, 24, younger son of the late Aga Khan III (and his third wife, Andrée Carron), uncle of the new Aga Khan IV; and Nina Sheila Dyer, 27, onetime London fashion model; he for the first time, she for the second; in Collonge-Bellerive, Switzerland...
...with the fall of the Ommiad caliphate in 750 and the shift of the Arab imperial capital to Baghdad, Syria once again became a pawn, subjected to the Byzantines, the Seljuk Turks, the Mamelukes of Egypt, the Crusaders, the Mongols of Hulagu Khan and, finally, in 1516, the Ottoman Turks. Not until World War I, when Lawrence of Arabia and Sherif Hussein of Mecca set Arab nationalism ablaze, did ravaged Syria at last emerge from the long night of Ottoman rule. And then, at the moment when the Arabs thought the land at last theirs, they discovered that the British...
Snub-nosed, bright-eyed Princess Yasmin, 7, on leave from Mamma Rita Hayworth, who is filmmaking in California, for a holiday in France with Papa Aly Khan, trained for the event by chomping an eclair and sloshing it down with lemonade, then went to the post for the children's race at Saint-Pierre-Sur-Dives a two-to-one favorite. Steering her half-sized sulky and Shetland pony Conga, she caught the inside rail and held it, finished a three-length winner. Her purse: two kilos of hard candy. Absent from the railbirds: her horse-loving papa...
...scarcely lives up to Herodotus or Hakluyt, for nowadays history is considered more "creative" if it is presented as fiction. Cronin has recast historic events in a form which the Persians call dastan, i.e., "near-factual history, almost myth." But the hero of this dastan will be remembered: Ghazan Khan, nomad chief of a tribe that Cronin calls the Falqani and a man hopelessly caught in the paradoxes of progress...
...Received courtesy calls from H.R.H. Marshal Sardar Shah Mahmoud Khan Ghazi, sometime (1946-53) Prime Minister of Afghanistan, and Thai Ambassador to the U.S. Pote Sarasin, soon to take off as Secretary-General of the Dulles-built, anti-Communist Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO...