Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khan, world-famous leader of the Ismaili Community, a sect of the Moslem religion, has endowed a professorship of Iranian at the University, President Pusey announced yesterday...
...chair, to be known as the Aga Khan Professorship of Iranian, will be devoted to the study of the history and civilization of Iran. Its purpose, according to the Khan, is "to preserve and transmit to future generations knowledge of the rich heritage of the Iranian past...
Iran (pop. 21,146,000). Like Turkey, a Moslem-but not an Arab-state. Three years ago the country was falling into anarchy after Britain's failure to negotiate a fair Anglo-Iranian oil deal. A weepy Mossadegh (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952) tried to rule from a hospital cot, and Iran was in danger of a Communist coup. That danger is safely past. Iran's Premier is a former ambassador to, and a good friend of, the U.S. The 37-year-old Shah now has firm control of his country, and on a recent trip to Moscow ably...
...State Department career that so far has not been easy. An engineer like his father, and a Middle East oil expert as well, Hoover was swept into his post after a piece of spectacular diplomacy in 1954. Iran and England were at angry odds over revenues from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s nationalized oilfields. Dulles chose Hoover to find common ground, asked him to find it in 45 days. The 45 days stretched to eleven months; Hoover winged constantly between Washington, London and Teheran, eventually hammered out a settlement acceptable to both nations. Impressed with this performance...
...Acting Secretary, Herbert Hoover, Jr., is not the man for the job either. A professional engineer, Hoover has a spotty record on his stints as Acting Secretary. Notwithstanding his earlier achievement on Iranian oil, he blundered in April 1955 when he refused to negotiate with the Chinese Communists on Formosa unless Chiang was there as an "equal." When Dulles returned to the job, this decision was reversed. His handling of the Saudi Arabian tank deal was also far from adequate, and finally led to a reversal by Mr. Eisenhower...