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Fear of Nasser's ambitions helped drive Iran and Saudi Arabia together, and they both supplied the royalists in the Yemen civil war against the Nasser-supported Republicans. Last February, however, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the 49-year-old Shah of Iran, abruptly canceled a state visit to Saudi Arabia, even though the capital city of Riyadh was already bedecked with welcoming banners. The Shah was irate because King Feisal was playing host to the Sheik of Bahrain Island, the British dependency just off the coast of Saudi Arabia that has long been claimed by Iran. Even worse, Feisal...
...with the late John Cohrarie, became famous for his fiery musical duels with the master. With Jimmy Garrison on bass and Joe Farrell splitting three ways on tenor, soprano sax and flute, Jones here uses his flashy technique to inspire, shape and embroider a harmonically free, three-way dialogue. Reza and Jay-Ree brim with bright looping arches of sound reminiscent of Ornette Coleman. Soloing on Kei-Ko's Birthday March, Elvin gets under way with a humorous drum-corps pattern that soon turns into an exuberant display of staccato licks that would bring a real marching band...
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...