Word: pahlevi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months the Shahinshah, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, has been suffering from severe pains in his royal stomach. The symptoms seemed to point to appendicitis. The Shah wanted to leave the country to have the necessary operation performed, presumably in Western Europe or the U.S. But with his country's Nationalists screaming that anything the West could do they could do better (including running Iran's oilfields), His Majesty decided it would be unwise politically, if wise medically, to seek relief abroad. He stayed at home and suffered. But recently the appendix got too troublesome...
...Arbor, Mich., His Imperial Highness, Prince Mahmoud Reza Pahlevi, 24, brother of Iran's Shah, got another traffic ticket-his eighth in two years at the University of Michigan-for buzzing along the campus in his Cadillac at 60 m.p.h. Hauled into the police station, he suddenly bolted, tried to reach his car, but was nabbed by cops and brought back weeping to get a court summons...
Married. His Imperial Majesty, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, 31, Shahinshah (King of Kings) of Iran, and Soraya Esfandiari, 18, Europe-schooled daughter of a chief of the proud Bakhtiari tribe by his German wife; in glittering Marmar Palace, Teheran, Iran. Wearing a Dior silver lamé gown with 6,000 diamonds, the bride rode to the simple ceremony in a gold-trimmed Rolls-Royce. The Shah ordered festivities limited to one day, food distributed to the poor. Among the wedding gifts: a $1,500 crystal bowl from Harry Truman, a mink coat (reported value: $150,000) from Joseph Stalin...
...corruption sits the royal family. Every member of it is well and painfully aware of the fact that the dynasty was founded only 25 years ago. Iranian peasants are attached to the idea of monarchy, but even they know that the founder of the present line, Reza Shah Pahlevi, was a sergeant in the Iranian army, a "strong man" raised to power by British influence after World War I, broken and exiled by the British in World...
Mother of this brood is Tajomolouk Pahlevi, icy-eyed widow of "the strong man." Her main contribution is to further undermine the Shah's self-confidence by reminding him that he is not the man his father was. This encourages him to make forays into Iranian politics, beyond the limits of the constitutional monarchy...