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Representatives from 69 states, including assorted sheikdoms, poured into Iran for the monumental Jash'n (celebration) marking the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Awaiting the guests on a dusty, windswept, 5,000-ft.-high plain next to the ruins of Persepolis was a city that even Scheherazade could never have imagined: a 160-acre oasis studded with three huge royal "tents" and 59 lesser ones arranged in a star pattern. The tents were more or less permanent structures of synthetic fabric, with cement bases and wooden partitions; they were built...
Nonetheless, the Shah was determined to stage his show of shows as "a sign to the rest of the world that Iran is again a nation equal to all the others -and much finer than many." Cyrus the Great provided a handy peg. Iran ("home of the Aryans") was settled by an Aryan tribe from what is now southern Russia. Cyrus, a leader of the Achaemenian dynasty of the tribe, accepted Babylon's surrender in 539 B.C., and by the next year had founded an empire that at its height stretched from present-day India to the Aegean...
...empire that includes three steel-forging plants, a chemical company, an employment agency, a business college, another small publishing operation-and now the venerable Curtis Publishing Co. (Post, Holiday, Jack and Jill). SerVaas picked up control of the company at cut-rate prices last year from the estate of Cyrus Curtis, reportedly paying less than $200,000 for 17% of the shares. With the Post dead and Holiday dying, Curtis was hardly a hot property. The company was burdened with $20 million in tax claims and another $20 million in back debts. Still, SerVaas saw survival possibilities...
...Better. It is still too early to assess McCloskey's chances of mounting an effective primary campaign. Money is a problem, although such diverse financial angels as New York Philanthropist Stewart Mott, California's Norton Simon and Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton have expressed interest in his campaign. He has received more than 30,000 letters of support from across the country, but realistically admits that it will take a much greater groundswell to put him across...
...Robert F. Froehlke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administration, disclosed that the Army had become seriously involved in surveillance of civilians after the Newark and Detroit riots in 1967. Following recommendations to Lyndon Johnson by Cyrus Vance, a former Deputy Defense Secretary, the Army formed a Civil Disturbance Committee to study the possible use of federal troops in major cities in the event of widespread insurrection. The intelligence operation grew quickly and haphazardly, investigating all sorts of persons-those who might contribute "directly or indirectly" to civil disturbances. After a public outcry, the Army's files on civilians were...