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...ciale d'Architecture once remarked: "She has everything: beauty, grace, intelligence. She is a brilliant student." The girl did cut short her education in order to get married seven years ago, but that doesn't seem to have hurt her standing. Still dazzling, Iran's Empress Farah Diba, 28, traveled to Shiraz in southwestern Iran, donned the elaborate academic robes of Pahlevi University, which happens to be named for her husband, and accepted an honorary degree in science and arts as the university celebrated its fifth anniversary...
Born. To Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 46, Shah of Iran, and Farah Diba, 28: their third child, second son and second in line for succession to the 2,500-year-old Persian throne; in Teheran...
...palace door. A sergeant who ran protectively behind him was felled by eight bullets, but, before dying, he sent a burst from his own gun into Bakhshabadi. When the Shah reached his office, his assassin was dead and the phone was ringing. It was his wife, Queen Farah Diba, who had heard the shots and feared the worst. Said the Shah: "God has saved my life once again...
...Toledo, it should have been child's play. Confidently the vacationing Shah of Iran, 45, stepped up to the line in a Cambridgeshire pub and lofted three darts at the board. Kerplop, kerplop, two flew wide and dropped to the floor. Setting aside her 'arf pint, Queen Farah Diba, 26, demurely followed her husband to the line. There was a gleam in the lady's eye. Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! She neatly ringed the bull's-eye. Farah pooh-poohed it all, but a bricklayer in the public side had an eye for form. "I wouldn...
...both toothless and tasteless. There sat the Shah of Iran hungrily eying a smiling former King Saud of Arabia. Into Saud's hand Austrian Freelance Cartoonist Harald Sattler had drawn a sheaf of banknotes with the Shah saying: "Okay then, make it 30,000 and you can have Farah Diba." Since Farah Diba is the proper Muslim wife of the Shah, and the Shah both a proud ruler and a properly possessive Arab husband, he found the pastiche not only unfunny but insulting...