Word: elburz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once a conical chimney of belching fire and fury, the great peak of Iran's Mt. Demavend, towering 18,600 ft. high in the Elburz range north of Teheran, has long reigned in quiet white dignity. But hidden deep beneath Demavend's base, primeval subterranean fires still rage. In a few minutes, one day last week, in a gargantuan effort to adjust to the fury deep within the earth, a vast arc of the earth's crust, curving out some 250 miles on either side of Mt. Demavend, shuddered and heaved in a mighty earthquake that laid...
...Teheran. The Shah's birthday party was called off, and 25 Iranian-piloted Thunderbolts, assisted by eight U.S. Air Force planes, began a methodical sweep over the desolate Turkoman steppe. On the fifth day of searching, three peasants saw vultures swooping over a hidden ravine in the Elburz Mountains, only 42 miles from Teheran. The peasants went to the spot and there found the bodies of the prince and his two companions...
Died. Ali Reza, 32, younger brother of the Shah of Persia, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, and heir presumptive to the Iranian throne; in a plane crash; in Iran's Elburz Mountains (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Teheran's "informed public," the students and the intellectuals, the swarming bureaucracy, the editors and the tea-shop sages, were feeling depressed. It was not the heat: one could always take a bus to the cool foothills of the Elburz Mountains, or sit beside a pool in a garden nightclub and watch the moon glide across the sky. It was not business: apart from the standstill import trade, business was fair. It was not politics, the capital's favorite indoor & outdoor sport. What really bothered Teherani was the growing realization that the West no longer seemed to care...
Harriman and his wife drove 15 miles into the cool Elburz foothills to the sumptuous summer palace, pressed on him by the Iranian government for his stay. While two pools gurgled in the hilly garden outside, the party took lunch. Upstairs, servants freshened the Harriman bedrooms, bore in jerry cans filled with embassy well water (to ward off "Teheran tummy...