Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...windswept mountains and fertile valleys of the Iranian province of Fars, where Cyrus founded the Persian empire almost 2,500 years ago, time has stubbornly stood still. The feudal landlords defiantly lead the fight against change, and especially against the Shah's ambitious land-reform program...
last week threw down the boldest chal lenge to Western oilmen since Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh expropriated the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. in 1951. Kassem's move : the establishment of a government-owned company to produce and market Iraqi...
...Jointly owned by British Petroleum (formerly Anglo Iranian Oil), Royal Dutch/Shell, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles. Jersey Standard, Socony Mobil, and the estate of the late Calouste ("Mr. Five Percent") Gulbenkian...
Undone at having grounded one of the highest flyers in the international set, German Playboy Gunter Sachs, 29, could not keep from babbling the news to everyone he knew. Iran's former Queen Soraya, 30, had consented to be his. But as news of the betrothal spread, the Iranian earthquakes struck. The ex-queen, feeling she "could make no step in her private life when thousands of people in her homeland had fallen victims to such a horrible catastrophe," postponed...
...Iranian princess had been educated in South Carolina and had lived in California, and for her residence in the suburbs of Teheran she wanted a California-style redwood ranch house. So naturally she hired a pair of American architects to build it-and naturally they itched to design a house in the Persian tradition. Architects usually have their way: the result is the jewel-like residence pictured on the opposite page...