Word: farah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encouragement, his close boyhood friend, Asa-dollah Alam, had taken to the stump at the head of a loyal opposition called the People's Party, which denounced corruption and urged land reform. At this point, the Shah retired to his six palaces and his pregnant third wife, Farah Diba, whom he counts on to produce a male heir in late October. But while the Shah relaxed, pro-Nationalist landowners herded their villagers to the polls. One independent candidate produced photographs showing that Eghbal's men had used government trucks for the job and that one Nationalist had voted...
...disaster. France offered a stethoscope device successfully used in Agadir in March to detect still breathing victims trapped beneath the rubble. The U.S. naval attache in Teheran flew a DC-3 down to the stricken city with emergency supplies and took out survivors. At week's end Queen Farah, who is expecting her first child this fall, offered to take 200 motherless children of Lar into the royal orphanages...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran and his pretty bride of last December, Queen Farah, took in the sights of the Shatt-al-Arab river port of Khorramshahr from the deck of the Iranian ship Syrus. There was still no official confirmation of Farah's pregnancy (TIME, March 14), but the beribboned Shah was smiling with a secondary gleam...
Everybody in the know in Iran was broadly hinting that pretty Queen Farah, 21, the Shah's third wife and his bride of two months (TIME, Jan. 4), is expecting. From the royal palace in Teheran came a wave of unofficial tidings, all affirmative. Said one court official: "From the Shah's smile, you can get the best confirmation of the good news...
...enthusiasms of its editor. Convinced that "monarchy is the backbone of our nation," Ingram faithfully records the movements of the royal family, extends this interest to crowned heads from Tokyo (characteristic caption: "Another charming picture of the Japanese royal family") to Teheran (recent example: a shot displaying new Queen Farah's shapely legs to full advantage). World War I Captain Ingram is also partial to new weapons, runs meticulously detailed, cutaway drawings that have delighted readers from the time of the Dreadnought to the present-day Nautilus. Ingram has never had staff photographers, keeps costs down by hiring freelancers...