Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Justice William 0. Douglas has made as much news with his ascents as his dissents. Of Men and Mountains, his Thoreau-like reflections on mountain climbing in the Pacific Northwest, scaled 1950'S bestseller lists. The previous year, a hike up the peaks of Azerbaijan near the Russo-Iranian border brought a salvo of charges from the Soviet press that he was leading "a gang of spies." Uphill and down in seven years, the journeying justice has covered tens of thousands of miles, toured 20 lands and written five books about his travels. Folksy, candid, and inclined to ramble...
...what's inside this?" asked an Iranian police inspector, indicating the package. "Oh, it's just some nougat that I wanted to send my brother," said the man casually. "All right," said the policeman, "let's take it to my office, and we'll eat it together." At headquarters the police opened the package. It contained three pounds of heroin wrapped for delivery to a dope pusher in New York City...
...countryside came to life with urgent Iranian cries and the lighting of torches, the wolf raced into the village proper. By dawn there were 16 more victims. At last, the animal was killed by a peasant armed with a mattock...
...onager is not a mule or a jackass but a rare forerunner of the donkey. One of these Iranian animals resembling a small zebra with a pink back is now at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, thanks to the cowboy tactics of Bronson M. Potter '55. Another is awaiting someone who would be willing to pay his transportation from Iran...
...time of the capture, Potter was touring through the Middle East with Fereydoun Ala, the son of the Iranian Prime Minister, and his brother-in-law, Narcy Firouz. Driving through Iran in September, natives told them about a herd of Dziggetais, the onager's Persian name. When the travelers saw a group of 30, they dashed in pursuit in a jeep. Potter said that the tactics used were to drive along side one of the running animals and then, "Lean out, hug him around the neck, and let him pull you out. He soon tires. Then you threw...