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Garlic & Gold Coins. At the Shah's request, the Iranian Parliament has unanimously approved a bill that will eventually amend Iran's 50-year-old constitution and enable the Shah to appoint a regent-designate to rule if he should die before his son, Crown Prince Reza, now six, becomes 20 years old. His choice for the regency: his wife, Empress Farah, 28, who has presented him with two male heirs (plus a girl) after two previous wives failed to give him a son. The Shah, who has held Iran's Peacock Throne for 26 years without...
...student integration. The only whites many can attract are those who attend them "for a mixture of idealistic, exploratory and neurotic reasons." At the same time, white colleges increasingly seek out the best Negro students, contributing further to the decline of the Negro schools. Yet these institutions will not die, say the authors, if only because they "give an otherwise unattainable sense of importance to their trustees, administrators, faculty and alumni...
...knows how many such papers exist, since they appear sporadically, frequently flounder and die for lack of financial support or reader interest. Most of them are started by bright, active youngsters who are fed up with the blandness of official school papers. In Middletown, Conn., for example, High School Senior John Beatman began editing the Omelette-"It Doesn't Fry People, People Fry It"-because students have "no outlet to express any controversy." Beatman, who was once expelled for wearing a beard, collected a staff of a dozen teen-agers from three Middletown high schools with only one viewpoint...
...There is a contradiction when many Negroes fight and die in a war for democracy 10,000 miles away when they've never lived as first-class Americans in a country committed to democracy," Conyers, one of 11 Congressmen who voted against war appropriations this year declared...
...first shown the painting in the prince's collection by the late Bernard Berenson, in 1930. "After I became curator of the National Gallery," Walker recalls, "Berenson would say to me, 'I don't care what else you get as a curator, but before I die, I want you to get the Leonardo...