Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Iranian schoolgirls' record for the high and standing broad jump, gave birth. "Your Majesty, it's a boy!" cried Dr. Jahanshah Saleh, who is both the Queen's obstetrician and Iran's Minister of Health. The Shah raised his hands over his head in thanks to Allah for the heir for whom he had been hoping 21 years...
...then King Farouk, bore him a daughter but no son, and he divorced her in 1948. His seven-year marriage to Soraya, handsome daughter of a German-Iranian family, proved barren. His throne is none too secure, and the Shah and his advisers were convinced that a male heir was imperative if the monarchy was to survive. Regretfully, he divorced Soraya in 1958 and last year married Farah Diba, who had caught his eye while a blue-jean-clad student of architecture in Paris. The baby came ten months later. Even the day was lucky; it was the 34th anniversary...
With the usual dazzle of unconfirmable statistics, the North Koreans proudly contrast their achievements with South Korea. The North has less than half the South's population (10 million v. 24 million), but the Communists fell heir to 70% of undivided Korea's heavy industry, 90% of the electric power. 70% of the coal. Much of this capacity was destroyed during the Korean war, but the Reds say that by 1956 it was already back to prewar levels, and that since then output has doubled and even trebled. They claim that last year the North produced ten times as much...
...sometime actress who used lipstick and cigarettes in a never-never age when young ladies only pinched their cheeks for color, also added color to her life with a swift and exotic imagination. At 16 she had some people convinced that she was mistress to Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who at Sarajevo was to stop the bullet that started World...
...didn't sleep on Monday nights." He wrote daily sketches for Celeste Holm and Alfred Drake, material for Victor Borge and Hildegarde, turned out great hunks of audiopageantry for Philco Hall of Fame and Cavalcade of America, all the while keeping dark the personal secret that he was an heir to the loverly fortune that his father (once an Atlantic City dentist) and uncles had built up by converting a small blouse-making firm into the national chain called Lerner Shops...