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Throughout his speech, the shah lived up to the generous introduction of former president Nathan M. Pusey '28. Called a "twentieth century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient world," the shah's message was indeed thoroughly modern. He soundly denounced Holy Wars, which for centuries had been the belligerent reminders of ignorance. Today, the shah asserted, "humanity as a whole has come to realize that all people in the world were created by one God and that everyone is entitled to worship God in the way that...
...this point the Soviet Union is playing an extremely cautious role in Iran. The chief instrument of Moscow's influence is the Tudeh Party, which counsels other leftists to forget their differences and "fight U.S. imperialism." Tudeh leaders admit privately that an attempt at a Communist revolution in Iran would be premature. They believe that Iranian Communists should not repeat the mistakes of their Afghan counterparts but should "first let the apple ripen...
...National Science Foundation grant to the department will pay for the instrument, used in measurements for small molecules, Ciappennelli added...
...even gave it his two violins ("not great ones like Isaac Stern's, but good ones"). It was a fitting gesture. Ormandy is a virtuoso, all right; but his father's hopes notwithstanding, it is the orchestra that has turned out to be his true instrument...
...tools, and his wife as bookkeeper, Robert Ozuna in 1967 founded an electrical contracting firm in his garage. Today his New Bedford Panoramex Corp. of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., occupies an 18,000-sq.-ft. building, employs 41 people and expects 1980 sales of $3.5 million. Ozuna assembles the instrument panels that monitor nuclear plants, oil drilling rigs and other high-technology hardware. Firms working the Alaskan oil pipeline use his products. With their dazzling displays of dials and switches, the panels look like something out of the control room in The China Syndrome...