Word: empresse
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...even jazzier the next night, when Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran and his 23-year-old Empress Farah arrived at the White House for a magnificent dinner at the beginning of a state visit to the U.S. As their motorcade drove through the White House's main gates. 100 uniformed, white-gloved Marines snapped to attention, their bayonets gleaming in the rainy night. And when the royal Iranians stepped out on the North Portico to greet the President and First Lady, the society reporters murmured audibly. The Shah was resplendent in a swirling cloak and a looping crescent...
...prolonged ovation with a quiet remark: "However you decide, the people of Iran have not maintained their freedom for 2,500 years in order to now surrender.'' Most thoughts of the cold war were dispelled, though, by the parties, and especially by Jackie Kennedy and Empress Farah...
...pheasant à la périgourdme, the Kennedys and their hosts looked out on a rain-washed courtyard where Persian fountains played. And once more, the ladies were the radiant center of attraction - Jackie, in a strapless pink satin Dior gown, looked more like a Persian princess than the Empress Farah, in an orange chiffon sheath and her fabulous tiara and jeweled accessories...
After his own sumptuous state dinner. President Kennedy put his finger adroitly on the mood of the city. Rising to make the traditional toast, he addressed himself to the Shah but opened his remarks with his eyes on the young Empress. "His Highness and I have a 'burden' that we carry in common," he said with a smile. "We both paid state visits to Paris last year, and from all accounts, we might as well have both stayed at home...
...White House lawn provided a cornucopia of attractions for the twin firmaments of the Washington week. Jacqueline Kennedy and Empress Farah (see THE NATION ). "Be sure," Fledgling Hostess Caroline Kennedy told Mother, "to show her Robin's grave." The beloved pet bird (a canary despite its name) had been laid to rest just a day before, and the visiting queen stifled a smile to affect fitting bereavement. Most fawned-over fauna on the landscape, however, was John F. Kennedy Jr., 1½, who sprang up in his perambulator to pay court to the dazzling empress, but adamantly said...