Word: reza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening about 20 years ago, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, home on vacation from his elegant school in Switzerland, stood in the gardens of the ornate Marble Palace gazing into the waters of a pool. His father, the Shah of Persia, came upon him and demanded: "What are you doing, son?" "Nothing, father, just standing here thinking," answered the boy. The Shah's face clouded, and he roared: "Thinking! God damn it, one day you're going to be Shah and you'll have to act, not think." He booted his son into the water...
Father was a tough ex-cavalryman who became Shah by grabbing power; his son could never quite get over a shamed and hesitant feeling that the monarchy was not his by long tradition. Even after being booted into the pool, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi never learned to be decisive. Ascending the throne in 1941, Mohammed Reza quickly indicated that he preferred affairs of the heart to affairs of state. In his early days, he kept a fast plane, a hot-rod Cadillac and a French mistress; once he made a big and unsuccessful pitch for Rita Hayworth...
Mossadegh had apparently decided to bring his growing differences with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to a head. The Premier was convinced (with reason) that one center of resistance to his rule lay in the Shah's court. He resented the Shah's distribution of royal lands to the poor (because it provoked demands for general land reform), and wanted to ease his financial woes by cutting into the Shah's $720,000-a-year government allotment and his $2,000,000 a year from other sources...
Then because of General Naguib's coup in Egypt, Richardson flew to Cairo, where he spent most of the next three weeks. Meanwhile, part-time correspondents in a number of capitals kept TIME informed of developments in their countries. From Teheran, Reza Kavoussi had sent in a running report of the street violence protesting the fall of Mossadegh. In Cairo. Mohamed Wagdi covered the opening hours of the Egyptian coup alone, then helped Richardson cover subsequent events...
Prince Gholam Reza Pahlevi, 20-year-old brother of the Shah of Iran and a first lieutenant in the armored section of the Iranian army, arrived in Manhattan bound for Fort Knox, Ky. and a 14-week course in U.S. armored tactics...