Word: reza
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Last year, the Corporation did it again, getting for its Commencement speaker (always one of the honorary degree winners) His Imperial Majesty, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shahanshah of Iran. President Pusey cited the Shah as "A twentieth century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land...
...Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, LL.D., the Shahanshah of Iran. A 20th-century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land...
Harvard today conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on His Imperial Majesty, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shahanshah of Iran...
...countryside to have a picnic lunch beside a running stream. Thus there were no cheering crowds when Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin came to Teheran for a week-long state visit. But no difference: Kosygin was more than welcome. After years of nearly total dependence on the West, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi is turning his country increasingly toward Russia, his once hostile northern neighbor, seeking friendship, trade and backing for his ambitious industrial development plans. At the same time, his relations with the West, and in particular with the U.S., are becoming increasingly strained...
...broke tradition by also crowning Empress Farah, it was the ceremonial affirmation of her importance to his throne. The first woman ever to be crowned in Iran's 2,513-year history as a monarchy, she will become regent, if anything happens to the Shah, until Prince Reza comes of age. It is a possibility that the Shah, who has survived two assassination attempts, knows is very real. "My sole aim in life," he told his subjects at the end of the ceremony, "is the constant improvement of the welfare of Iran. In this task, I will withhold nothing...