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...many months ago, Iran's national production was growing at a dizzying rate of 42% a year. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi seemed to leaf through Aviation Week as if it were his special Sears catalogue. In the councils of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Iran took the lead in insisting that the world price of oil should be pushed ever higher...
...Iranian government has named Edward L. Keenan Jr. '57, professor of History, to the nine-man governing board of the planned Reza Shah Kebi University...
...external interference in its academic affairs. That's why it seemed strange when the University consented last year to aid the Iranian government--notorious for tight control over the minds and actions of its citizens--in founding a graduate research center in Iran. The policies of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi are, in many ways, diametrically opposed to precisely those ideals of free expression of speech and thought with which Harvard has always been associated...
...proposed Reza Shah Kebir University (RSKU) 500-person post-doctoral institute, "will probably avoid many of the political issues" that develop in larger schools like the University of Teheran, says Richard G. Leahy, associate dean for resources and planning and executive director of the commission. RSKU will be set up to create "an atmosphere that would engender scholarly research" rather than political activity, he says...
After all the buildup, reported Prager, the event itself at the white and green canal authority building alongside the harbor was refreshingly short. There, 600 invited dignitaries, including Crown Prince Reza of Iran, 14, foreign ambassadors, and defense ministers and army generals of other Arab nations, occupied a ceremonial platform shaped like a pharaonic solar ship...