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...painter. But not a starving one. So instead she started out as a fashion illustrator. Wanderlust struck in 1966, however, and she joined an airline as a reservations clerk. On trips abroad, she always stopped in London to pick up far-out fashions, and in 1968 she and Mohammed Houssein Kamali, her Persian-student husband of one year, opened a New York shop of imported clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Hot-Selling Locker Room Look | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...over two-thirds of Persia's barren land, gave him his latest excuse to string out the elections. They look with suspicion on the central Government and army (present strength, about 100,000), which has been trying to disarm them as a prelude to election. Oxford-educated Mohamad Houssein Qashqai, one of the four Qashqai brothers who rule most of the southern tribesmen, thinks the army exists only to suppress tribesmen, fears ambitious officers may attempt a coup d'état. He said recently: "Since the days of Reza Shah,* every private thinks he can become a dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIA: Reluctant Sponsor | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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