"Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love," wrote the Aga Khan in his autobiography three years ago, "that time for me has fled on too swift a wing." Last week swift-winged time came to an end for the legendary old Prince of Islam. In a quiet lakeside villa at Versoix, Switzerland, his huge bulk wasted to a mere 132 Ibs., His Highness Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III and spiritual leader of some 20 million Ismaili Moslems throughout the East, the Middle East and Africa,...
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