Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First leaked last April, the news was made official last week by Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi that his only child, early-ripening Princess Shanaz, 16, daughter by the Shah's first wife (Egypt's Princess Fawzia, divorced by the Shah in 1948 for her failure to bear him a son), will soon be married. Her fiancé: U.S.educated (University of Utah) Ardashir Zahedi, 28, son of Iran's ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi who, after helping to boot weepy old Mohammed Mossadegh from the premiership in 1953, was later himself edged out by the Shah...
Dear Mom . . . Unlike their elders, child writers waste few words. "Great stacks of books," says Smith, "have been written by people in an effort to explain why Rome fell ... yet none of them ever really arrived at a more sensible answer than that contained in a penciled manuscript unearthed in Greenwich, Conn, one day in 1948. It was the work of a nine-year-old boy and follows...
While drinking from animal dishes, the Phrygian child may have worn diapers of a sort. Bronze safety pins found in the tomb suggest that children's underpinnings have not changed in 2,600 years...
...Child's Toys. For six years, archaeologists of the University of Pennsylvania have been digging at the site of ancient Gordium, capital of the Phrygians, who ruled much of Asia Minor up to the yth century B.C. Dr. Rodney S. Young, leader of the dig, tells how an earthen mound near Gordium was probed with an oil-well pilot drill. Off to one side, presumably to foil grave robbers not equipped with modern scientific gadgets, was the tomb of a high-born Phrygian child who died about 2,600 years ago. The remains of five baby teeth were sifted...
Carefully packed in a big bronze kettle were toys that modern children would appreciate: wooden horses, one of them winged, a lion fighting a bull, a yoked ox. Perhaps the Phrygian child had been a "feeding problem" and had to be cajoled into eating his meals. At any rate, his tomb was furnished with special dishes for mealtime entertainment. One pitcher was like a goat's head with the horns for handles. Other vessels were modeled after geese, stags or rams...