Word: regentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Garlic & Gold Coins. At the Shah's request, the Iranian Parliament has unanimously approved a bill that will eventually amend Iran's 50-year-old constitution and enable the Shah to appoint a regent-designate to rule if he should die before his son, Crown Prince Reza, now six, becomes 20 years old. His choice for the regency: his wife, Empress Farah, 28, who has presented him with two male heirs (plus a girl) after two previous wives failed to give him a son. The Shah, who has held Iran's Peacock Throne for 26 years without...
Last Friday, 3000 students marched through the City of London and the West End, demonstrating national support for the "rebels of the London School of Economics." For Britain's universities, sharply divided by tradition and the "tracking" system, it was a rare moment of unity: students from Leeds, Manchester, Regent St. Polytechnic, and Cambridge (among others) carried banners together and wore a new symbol of quiet protest: yellow daffodils. The London Times called the student demonstrations "unprecedented in British university history." The march was inspired by the round-the-clock LSE sit-in which began a week ago Monday. Between...
...blunt and unexpected manner of Kerr's dismissal also makes the finding of a successor difficult, since rightly or wrongly many educators now regard the former president as an academic martyr. As pieced together from Kerr and the accounts of various regents, the details of the president's removal are now clear -and they add up to what one regent calls "a tragedy-because no one wanted it to happen then." Although a majority of the board had long since lost faith in Kerr, they did not want his dismissal to coincide with a new Governor...
During the regular January meeting of the board, Kerr was grilled on this admissions freeze. One regent recalls that "there was an inquisition air about it-the talk was agonizingly tense." Kerr took the questioning as confirmation of the published rumors that the regents were getting set to fire him. On the last day of the regents' meeting, Kerr asked Board Chairman Theodore Meyer and Vice Chairman Dorothy ("Buff") Chandler to his office, told them: "If you've made up your mind to get rid of me, January is better than February." With the financial situation fluid...
...debate continued for 21 hours, with each regent airing his feelings about Kerr. Reagan was among those who proposed that the question of Kerr's status be postponed. "By the time everybody had had his say," recalls one, "it was like squeezing the toothpaste out of the tube-you can't get it back in-and it was perfectly obvious that there was a lack of confidence in Kerr." In the end, the 14 to 8 vote went against Kerr. After the decision, Meyer and Mrs. Chandler told Kerr of the vote, and asked on behalf...