Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen years ago, when the Nazis and the Communists were such fine false friends, Stalin and Hitler agreed on the direction in which Russia really should expand: down towards the Persian Gulf. In looking southward, the Russian was echoing an ambition as old as Peter the Great's push for a warm-water port...
Into the Market. With more money than ever before to buy art, even small museums are dipping into the market. The Springfield (Mo.) Art Museum recently picked up an Albrecht Dürer print, a Ben Shahn painting, Mother and Child, and a 10th century Persian bowl. The big, endowed museums are taking a back seat to no one, e.g., the St. Louis City Art Museum's purchase this month of a Frans Hals portrait for $150,000. Kansas City's collection, which goes back 4,000 years to a Sumerian statue, also goes forward to a recent...
...International Bank. The bank said it could advance no more funds unless the Turks drastically overhauled their policy and established their financial solvency. Menderes next called in an old friend, Max Thornburg, a rich, retired U.S. oil executive of 63 who lives on his own island in the Persian Gulf and devotes much of his time and widely admitted talents to helping Middle Eastern governments with their economic planning. Thornburg told Menderes that 1) he was rushing ahead too fast with his industrial-development program; 2) there was so little overall planning and scientific management that barely half...
...plane on August 24, just after the close of Summer School in Cambridge, he proceeded from there to Leningrad, where he gave a talk on Middle Eastern history at the Hermitage Museum. From there he went to Moscow, where he was interviewed on the radio in Russian and Persian, and then to Uralsk, in the Urals. His next stop was Aktyubinski in Kazakistan, whence he went to Dzhuzali near the northeast tip of the Aral...
...more for the common man whom he says he despises than all the politicians who promised a new heaven and earth to get votes." Today Mirza lives in a big house with ample grounds and cool white porticos in the center of Karachi with his second wife, a sophisticated Persian.* Mirza's appointment to the governor generalship requires the formal confirmation of Queen Elizabeth, but Strongman Mirza is in no doubt about what his authority will give him. Said he: "The Governor General must have extensive and clearly defined powers, including the power to dismiss governments." Mirza...