Word: fete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Morgan. "I'm in good shape," reports Landon, who carried the G.O.P. banner during the ill-fated campaign against F.D.R. in 1936, "though I can't get in and out of the saddle without help." Colonel Harland Sanders, 90, whose birthday fete took place at his old Kentucky home town of Louisville, prefers to do most of his traveling by air. Though he will not cover the 250,000 miles he managed last year, he still makes a bucketful of appearances touting his famous fried chicken for Heublein, Inc. The colonel's secret recipe...
...bars and discothéques that seemed the most visible result of Westernization. (One of the Shah's last prime ministers also stopped annual government subsidies to the mullahs.) Almost everybody hated the police terror and sneered in private at the Shah's Ozymandian megalomania, symbolized by a $100 million fete he staged at Persepolis in 1971 to celebrate the 2,500 years of the Persian Empire. In fact, the Shah's father was a colonel in the army when he overthrew the Qajar dynasty in 1925, and as Khomeini pointed out angrily from exile at the time of the Persepolis...