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...without question the most dazzling state visit that Washington had seen in years. When His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and his lovely Shahbanou (Imperial Consort), Empress Farah, arrived at the White House for a four-day state visit Thursday, they were greeted by silver-colored trumpets, red carpets and a 21-gun salute that boomed across the South Lawn. Gerald Ford, the seventh U.S. President that the Shah has met in his 34-year reign, greeted his Iranian guests with the kind of warmth normally reserved for close and deeply trusted friends. Outside the White...
...just sit over coffee at Adams House and identify with the proletariat by wearing work boots and a cloth cap. He worked almost every day of the past two years for people whom he'd never seen and never really knew. He helped lead the Boston area boycott of Farah so that clothing workers in Texas would be able to have a union, and not merely accept what Mister Farah wanted to give them; he picketed in the rain for the Harvard printers' union last spring, trying to remind the university that human beings create and run institutions...
...Farah Pahlavi, Express of Iran, notes that her husband is "interested in Iran's GNP." With what complementary problem does she profess to deal...
What a loss to everyone that Ferrara was too young to be in college during the Farah strike: the strikers would have found out how soft they were living; the world could have blissfully worn its (then) scab pants; and the Crimson could have gotten all that income from scab advertising...
...Empress of a predominantly Moslem nation, Farah is proud of the strides that Iran is making in establishing equal rights for women. One of her proudest moments came when the Shah dispatched her on an official trip to Peking two years ago at a time when Iran was moving to strengthen diplomatic relations. Farah interpreted the Shah's entrustment of such a sensitive mission to her as evidence of his commitment to a new role for women outside the home. What about becoming regent? "I don't want to think about it, but sometimes I do," she told...