Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last May in his capacity as Chief Supervisor of Iranian Students Abroad, the Shah's son-in-law Ardashir Zahedi discovered Farah Diba, the pretty young Iranian art student in Paris who last month ascended the Peacock Throne as the Shah's third wife (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week, for this and other services to the crown, tall, handsome Zahedi was appointed Iran's new Ambassador...
...Gibb, University Professor and heads of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and by Frank M. Gross, Jr., Curator of the Semitic Museum, to expand the scholarly base of that department in order to accommodate studies that are related to, but nor included in, Semitic culture. These include Iranian, Turkish, and other such fields of research...
...from the Continent to give breathless coverage of the wedding, the need to provide a male successor to the Peacock Throne was the overriding consideration in the marriage. It was the Shah's own grown daughter, Princess Shahnaz, who spotted Farah as a likely candidate-an aristocratic young Iranian beauty who was studying art in Paris (TIME, Nov. 2). When the Shah took Farah up in his private jet plane over Teheran, the French press eagerly told of how he whispered "Je t'aime," but the Shah, the court, and the Iranians themselves, having gone through all this...
Married. Elizabeth Ickes, 18, daughter of the late Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior under F.D.R.; and Djahangir Boushehri, 35, an Iranian director of the International Monetary Fund; in an Episcopal ceremony at the Ickes farm in Olney, Md., followed by a Moslem ceremony in Washington...