Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, sole owner of the crown's 2.5 million acres, is Iran's biggest single landholder. Since 1950 he has distributed his vast farm properties to the peasants of some 100 of his villages. To help establish a new class of independent farmers, a Development Bank has lent the new small holders money at low interest. But his fellow landlords (who own 70% of Iran's arable acres, the vast majority of its 40,000 villages) have heeded neither the Shah's example nor his exhortations to sell some of their land...
...this time Maverick had become a hero. Newspapers cheered him. A thousand dog lovers wrote and phoned the animal shelter begging for him. So great was the demand that the shelter agreed to auction him off, and last week at the auction Mrs. Doris Crown, wife of a Van Nuys aircraft-parts manufacturer, bought him for $134.88, drove him away in her red convertible Cadillac...
...there, including eleven ambassadors. Even Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani and President Giovanni Gronchi agreed to show up to dramatize Italy's self-appointed role in the Mediterranean as a bridge between the Arabs and the West. In the opening address, the chairman of the conference, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan of Morocco, spoke "from my heart" of his hope that the delegates would deliberate "freely and fraternally on the problems common to the Mediterranean...
...challenge of the 20th century, notably Leo XIII, who gave the church and the world his great encyclical on labor. But in the 19 years of Eugenio Pacelli's reign, the nature of the papacy has changed dramatically, partly because few men who have worn the triple crown have been so keenly and so tirelessly aware of the agonies of their...
Though his crown is as precariously perched as when the British arrived last summer, Jordan's young King Hussein last week said he could now run his own show, released political prisoners in droves, and talked blissfully of his hopes for better relations with his Arab neighbors. Perhaps he counted on Nasser's being too busy with his own internal problems, or too leary of Israel to start something...