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...Egypt, Reza Pahlavi, the elder son of the late Shah, last week marked his 20th birthday by proclaiming himself Shah of Iran and calling on his countrymen to join forces in ending the "nightmare" wrought by the Iraqi invasion and the revolution that ousted his father from the Peacock Throne...
...they are showing off some of their acquired wealth, and in an unlikely setting. Above Moundsville, in the West Virginia hills four miles up a rutted road from the nearest highway, 60 Hare Krishnas, who taught themselves to be artisans by trial and error, built an incredible peacock-hued "Palace of Gold." It is the first installment of what the settlement's leader envisions as a "spiritual Disneyland where people can come and be amazed." Amazed was one word for the 15,000 disciples and tourists attending the Labor Day weekend "grand opening." The festival also marked Janmastami, birthday...
...Iran had decided to throw a party that would dazzle even the most jaded of his guests: Kings and Queens, Presidents and Premiers, sheiks and sultans. More than $100 million was spent on tents lined with silk and furnished with Baccarat crystal and Porthault linens, banquets laden with roast peacock stuffed with foie gras, magnums of Château Lafite-Rothschild...
Though Griffiths has been credited with making RCA competitive once again in television manufacturing and other electronic products, his record with NBC hardly merits a peacock. In 1976, when Griffiths assumed the throne at RCA, the corporation earned $106.9 million, of which 32% came from the network. Last year RCA earnings totaled only $105.6 million, with NBC accounting for a mere 17%. Said John Reidy, a broadcast-industry analyst with Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.: "If the broadcast division is not the premiere division in that company, then it is a problem...
Griffiths' profit record at RCA since he took over in 1976 has generally been good. Subsidiaries like Hertz rent-a-car have helped bolster income, but NBCTV, once RCA's proud peacock, has lagged sadly behind the other networks...