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...annual Honors List of Britain's Queen Elizabeth was published with a rare omission: no famous author or actor appeared in the roster of nearly 2,000 British subjects who made the grade. The Aga Khan, 77, who as holder of four British knighthoods can already call himself Sir Mahomed Shah, got a fancy new title, mostly for his aid to Moslems in Britain's East African colonies: Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Britain's urbane ambassador to the U.S., Sir Roger Makins, 50, joined the Aga Khan in the same order. Australia...
...brilliantly fills that bill is Hashim Khan, 40, of Pakistan, generally regarded as the best squash player in the world. Last week Hashim arrived in the U.S. to compete in the second U.S. open-singles championship (Jan. i, 2, 3), sponsored by the U.S. Squash Racquets Association. Since he began playing in big tournaments ten years ago, Hashim Khan has been beaten only once-in the first U.S. open a year ago. Hashim, who had learned the British game in Peshawar, had never played it U.S.-style (narrower and longer court, livelier ball, slightly heavier racket), and he had only...
...child, Hashim played on the courts at the officers' club in Peshawar, and by the time he was ten, he was neglecting school and spending lunch money for court fees. Soon he was the best pro in the Indian peninsula, and four years ago modest Hashim Khan was persuaded to compete in England. The Royal Pakistan Air Force put up the money. In 1951 he won all of Britain's major tournaments, and (except for one default) he has won them every year since...
...Some provincial-minded officials wanted assurances that the government jobs in their provinces would continue to go .to the locals. But the regime has already installed its men as governors of the four West Pakistan provinces, and they will cooperate in the provincial dissolution. The princely rulers-including the Khan of Kalat, the Wali of Swat and the Jam Saheb of Las Bella-noting the direction of the wind, obediently consented that their states should be wiped...
Leaving her two children, Yasmin, 4 (daughter of Prince Ali Khan), and Rebecca, 9 (daughter of Orson Welles), frolicking at Lake Tahoe, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, with her fourth husband, Crooner Dick Haymes, in tow, journeyed to nearby Reno for the climax of a Versailles among divorce settlements. Yasmin was the prize. For her, Prince Aly signed away a princess's ransom of the estimated $500 million fortune of his aging (77) father, Ago Khan, who dotes on Yasmin and will treasure her as one of his four heirs.* To Rita will come more than $1,500 a month...