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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large military establishment," Graham writes, "enables the Shah to fragment individual power bases, making it much more difficult for dissident elements to mount a cohesive opposition." A graduate of Tehran's Military College, the Shah has involved himself deeply in the promotion of all officers, even at middle-grade levels. Liaison between the army, navy and air force, which were separated into three military bureaucracies in 1955, is handled at the top by a royal military staff. That makes it much more difficult for officers of the three services to get together-and possibly conspire against their commander...
John inherited his share of Scotch business acumen and has been running business enterprises since he was a mere toddler. His youthful passion for sports had to be checked when he developed bone chips in his ankles and elbows. Unable to play football, he spent seventh and eighth grade taking photographs of the players on his junior high football team and then sold the glossies to his schoolmates...
...soccer "pitch" he is in his element, having played the sport since grade school. By the time he was 15, Smith was playing up to 100 games a season and he made the last 22 of the British junior national team in his senior year. But, even there, Smith had to adapt. "It's certainly the first time, at the school level, that I've been on a losing team," he says. "In a few games it's hurt my game. Sometimes it seems it's been a struggle...
...council also yesterday heard David C. McClelland '69, professor of Psychology, discuss the correlation between standard measurements of academic achievement like grade point average and achievement tests and performance five or ten years after graduation from college or graduate school...
When known counseling methods fail, the child should be taken from its parents. With a rueful laugh Belisle recalls that when his own daughter was in first grade and the teacher asked what her father did, she replied, "My daddy swipes kids." Separating child from family is always a horrifying and legally difficult matter. "It's like being a member of the Gestapo," says Belisle. "As bad as you know the parents are, there they stand, in the doorway, screaming 'I love my child.' The neighbors gather, whispering and pointing. The mother starts calling you four-letter...