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...best-dressed women. For his part, Balmain now picks up about $500,000 in annual business from Sirikit, a fact that rankles the house of Dior deeply. Last week, when Sirikit and King Bhumibol paid a state visit to the Shah of Iran and Empress Farah Diba, Dior dispatched six of its staff members to study Sirikit's tastes in couture and see if they couldn't recommend a few designs that she might buy on a Paris spree later this spring. "I prefer Balmain because I happened to know him before I knew Dior," Sirikit kept insisting...
...Architecture once remarked: "She has everything: beauty, grace, intelligence. She is a brilliant student." The girl did cut short her education in order to get married seven years ago, but that doesn't seem to have hurt her standing. Still dazzling, Iran's Empress Farah Diba, 28, traveled to Shiraz in southwestern Iran, donned the elaborate academic robes of Pahlevi University, which happens to be named for her husband, and accepted an honorary degree in science and arts as the university celebrated its fifth anniversary...
Born. To Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 46, Shah of Iran, and Farah Diba, 28: their third child, second son and second in line for succession to the 2,500-year-old Persian throne; in Teheran...
...palace door. A sergeant who ran protectively behind him was felled by eight bullets, but, before dying, he sent a burst from his own gun into Bakhshabadi. When the Shah reached his office, his assassin was dead and the phone was ringing. It was his wife, Queen Farah Diba, who had heard the shots and feared the worst. Said the Shah: "God has saved my life once again...
...should have been child's play. Confidently the vacationing Shah of Iran, 45, stepped up to the line in a Cambridgeshire pub and lofted three darts at the board. Kerplop, kerplop, two flew wide and dropped to the floor. Setting aside her 'arf pint, Queen Farah Diba, 26, demurely followed her husband to the line. There was a gleam in the lady's eye. Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! She neatly ringed the bull's-eye. Farah pooh-poohed it all, but a bricklayer in the public side had an eye for form. "I wouldn't have...