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...Reza Pahlavi, Aryamehr, Shahanshah of Iran, scion of 2,500 years of Persian power and self-appointed (with U.S. encouragement) policeman of the Persian Gulf. He had two private sessions totaling three hours in the President's Oval Office. Then the Shah, 53, and his stunning third wife, Empress Farah, 34, were feted by the President at a state dinner in the White House (the 115 guests included a gusher of U.S. oil executives), and the Nixons attended a reciprocal dinner at the Iranian embassy. Perhaps most satisfying, though, was the morning the Shah was given with officials...
...year that seems to be so devoted to the Chanel principles of simplicity and elegance, the late fashion empress's own line-by Balenciaga-trained Ramon Esparza-ironically fell flat. Though WWD Publisher John Fairchild found the collection "young and different," it was all but hooted out of Paris by local authorities. "An incredible pell-mell of belted raglans, monkey-trimmed redingotes, hippy waistcoats, red rainproofs and dollie-see-through dresses," Le Figaro concluded unbelievingly. "They look like bad copies of good originals...
...government in power in violation of the constitution. Within Tanaka's own party, there was evidently trouble from former Premier Eisaku Sato. Sato reportedly had thought that he. rather than Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira, an old rival, should be accorded the honor of escorting Hirohito and the Empress Nagako to the U.S. Although Sato denied it, Japanese press reports maintained that, when he was turned down, the former Premier began stirring up doubts about the trip within the Imperial Household Agency, which manages Hirohito's official life with jealous zeal. In the end, the agency doomed the visit...
...Ludwig as a moony homosexual victim of his era's political and intellectual climate, a notion he establishes in the film's first moments and never bothers to develop further. Nor does he do much but dawdle over Ludwig's passion for his cousin Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (Romy Schneider...
...influence them toward Christianity; he wore Chinese dress and even grew a queue. Pearl was tutored by a Confucian scholar and spoke Chinese before she spoke English. All her playmates were Chinese, and she realized that she was "different" only in 1900, when the Boxer Rebellion flared and the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi decreed that all white people must be killed. The family had to take refuge briefly in Shanghai...