Word: ali
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That did it. Nationalists poured into the streets of Teheran and Abadan yelling: "Death to Qavam the traitor." They postured before the soldiers screaming: "Pierce our breasts with your bayonets." Mullah Kashani, whose spiritual followers murdered moderate Premier Ali Razmara in 1951, told newsmen that Qavam would also be "eliminated...
...levies as high as 80% or 90% on his crops, the zamindar could seize his land (or his daughter) in payment. The zamindars gradually became the landholders, the peasants mere sharecroppers. "The most creditable products of zamindari," wrote the London Economist, "have been Rabindranath Tagore, the poet, Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister, and the Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram, the cricketer . . . The majority have been as vicious as Thackeray's Lord Steyne, as idle as Jane Austen's Mr. Bennett, and as drunken as a Surtees squire...
...wealthy, and their aristocratic hauteur terrifies the bandits who lurk in ambush about their tables, i.e., "doorman, door-opener, coat-hander, coat-taker, inside-door opener, up-the-stairs-pointer, director, headwaiter, assistant headwaiter . . . captain, waiter and bus boy." Lounging on luxurious hotel terraces, they nod to "Ali, Rita and Schiaparelli"; sunk in sofas "soft as a mudbath," they regale each other with romantic anecdotes of beautiful American heiresses, great dukes and greater maharajahs, heartbroken countesses and billionaires with huge cigars...
...been family-owned for generations. Adjoining them is Elmendorf Farm, an important breeding establishment since 1871. Sprawling over 500 hilly acres, through woods and along North Elkhorn Creek, the present-day Elmendorf is the heart of what was once a vast 9,800-acre tract owned by James Ben Ali Haggin, fabulous copper baron. A farm of such scope could not exist in tax-ridden 1952, but most Lexington breeders are content to stress quality-and hope that the racing boom lasts forever...
Born. To Iran's Princess Fatmeh Pahlevi, 23, who in 1950 remarried her husband in a Moslem ceremony in order to win back her royal prerogatives from her miffed brother, the Shah, and California Importer-Exporter Ali Vincent Lee Hillyer, 26, who, to help his wife, renounced Roman Catholicism and took no God but Allah: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica. Name: Cayvon Pahlavi. Weight: 7 Ibs. 110z...