Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also wishes everyone and everything would go away; he especially wants his chief aide to clam up. But the aide insists on telling his honor about the most absurd caper ever to hit Manhattan Island. Four men with automatic weapons have hijacked a subway car. They are holding it, 17 passengers and a conductor for $1 million ransom. The city has exactly one hour to get up the cash. For every minute past their deadline, the hijackers promise to shoot one of the hostages...
...lower classes. Confident of his power, the Shah in 1967 finally decreed his coronation-after 26 years on the throne. Rather like Napoleon, he crowned himself with the 10,400-carat ruby and diamond royal crown. For Farah, the first Shahbanou (Imperial Consort) of Iran ever accorded the honor of being crowned, a special diadem was fashioned by Van Cleef & Arpels...
...peasants also kiss his feet as a mark of respect. When the Shah stands, everyone in his presence also stands until he sits again. Iranian public works, from the 609-ft.-tall Mohammed Reza Pahlavi dam, Iran's highest, to the Aryamehr steel complex, are named in honor of the Shah or the Shahbanou. "The outside world thinks that we want that sort of thing," said Empress Farah in an interview last week with TIME (see box, page...
...where her film-fittingly titled Sombres Vacances (Gloomy Vacation) -is being shot, but Actress Catherine Deneuve had cause for celebration last week anyway. Abandoning the cameras and donning coats, Deneuve, Actors Claude Brasseur and Jean-Louis Trintignant and the film's company broke out caviar and champagne in honor of Deneuve's 31st birthday. Then the star settled down to read a batch of congratulatory telegrams. Among them was a sign of a hard-working actress's lot: telegraphed greetings from her children, Christian, 11, son of Director Roger Vadim, and Chiara, 2, daughter of Actor Marcello...
...stabilize the W.F.L., they announced that a new team would be formed in New York in time for the 1976 season and the reopening of Yankee Stadium. They also held a special draft for Wheel players-16 members of the 37-man squad were picked up-and promised to honor all other contracts signed by now defunct teams. "We feel while we have had our problems, we have not ignored them," says League Founder and Commissioner Gary Davidson. "I feel very positively we have turned the corner...