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...pledged subservience to the Shah. And what hangs most ominously over all Iranian life, too often at court as well as in business life, is the ingrained Iranian tradition of corruption and favoritism, casually explained away by the Persian saying: "Let no man of rank be a tree without fruit...
Despite the Shah's best intentions, a shocking percentage of Iran's economic-development money turns into "fruit'' distributed at every level of officialdom. One foreign entrepreneur, after striking a bargain for some surplus airplane parts originally given to the Iranian Air Force by the U.S., resignedly paid off the colonels concerned only to have his loaded trucks held up at the gate by a young captain of the guard who inquired with pointed effect, "Don't you think captains are as good as colonels?" "They aren't even subtle about it," says...
Time accelerates abruptly. An apple tree visible from his laboratory window blossoms and bears fruit in an instant, and as the years click by on the time machine's temporal speedometer, a female store dummy in a window across the street does a perpetual striptease. In 1917 the Time Traveler stops, only to learn that the world is at war. He sets out again, but matters get worse. He sees the blitzed London of 1940, then is almost buried during the atomic blowup...
Recalls an Argentine who met him then: "Once we came across a group of undernourished, belly-bloated kids. We were in United Fruit land. Che went into one of his rages. He cursed everybody from God to North American 'exploiters,' and wound up with a frightening asthmatic attack that lasted two hours...
Surrounded by his vast company of experts and workers, and by Brothers Bobby and Ted, Jack Kennedy was ready to pluck the fruit of seeds he had nourished so well over the months. In his pocket, secured, checked and double-checked like an audit of the U.S. Treasury, was his packet of certain votes so persistently gathered around the nation. And yet, with all the smell of victory in the air, the Kennedys were allowing for mischance, miscalculation-the sudden outbreak of an emotional riot, perhaps, that might start delegates stampeding in the wrong direction...