Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only political problems but domestic ones. Though his father sired four daughters and seven sons, the Shah still has no male heir to his throne. In 1948, after she had borne him one daughter, he divorced Egypt's Fawzia and three years later married the handsome half-German, half-Iranian Soraya. Despite Soraya's famed fiery temper, it was with regret that the Shah divorced her in 1958, apparently convinced that she was barren -a charge that makes Soraya angry...
...pert Iranian art student in Paris who, after royal treatment by Dior, Revillon and Carita, easily equaled his first two wives in comely poise. Soon after their marriage, Farah Diba announced that a child was on the way. On the assumption that the baby will be the long-awaited heir, the Shah reportedly has already decided to name him Cyrus-after ancient Persia's Cyrus the Great. The baby is due in late October, and the Shah plans gala celebrations early next year for the 2,500th anniversary of Cyrus' empire. which once stretched from the Indus...
...taken to the stump at the head of a loyal opposition called the People's Party, which denounced corruption and urged land reform. At this point, the Shah retired to his six palaces and his pregnant third wife, Farah Diba, whom he counts on to produce a male heir in late October. But while the Shah relaxed, pro-Nationalist landowners herded their villagers to the polls. One independent candidate produced photographs showing that Eghbal's men had used government trucks for the job and that one Nationalist had voted six times...
When A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford offered to build an $862,500 Parisian-style sidewalk cafe and pavilion in Manhattan's Central Park as a gift to the city, he might just as well have proposed a boiler factory for all the protesting cries it aroused. Moaning about this "unwarranted invasion," a curious assortment of allies, ranging from Funnyman Henry Morgan ("Anybody who chops down one tree ought to be executed") to the Fifth Avenue Association and Tiffany & Co., which brought a still pending court suit, apparently on the theory that soda sipping is bad for the diamond business...
...sobering story, about the leukemia of the will that precedes the death of empires. The British acquired Singapore in 1819, when that great buccaneer of the East India Co., Sir Stamford Raffles, dickered the island away from the Sultan of Johore's heir. A little over 100 years later, Singapore still had the Raffles instinct for a deal, but it had lost his daring and his sense of destiny...