Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Massive Aid. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iran's 55-year-old ruler, has a clear idea of the role that Pan Am will play in his country's development. Since 1964, Pan Am has been providing training and technical assistance to the Iranian national carrier, Iran Air. Now, with the use of Pan Am's terminals and expertise in maintenance and promotion, the Shah intends to turn Iran Air into a major international airline, carrying tourists and businessmen from all over the world to Tehran, where $5 billion in new construction and renovation is under...
...part profile of the magazine that sent its editors and friends off muttering about hatchet jobs and "parajournalism." Wolfe's article ran in New York magazine, then the Sunday supplement of The New York Herald-Tribune. His first installment was headlined "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of The Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of The Walking Dead!" It was a great piece, nasty and accurate. "The Ruler of 43rd Street" was William Shawn. The New Yorker's editor, whom Wolfe called "the museum curator, the mummifier, the preserver-in-amber, the smiling embalmer" of the magazine. Wolfe later explained...
Next to Faisal, the ruler who gained most from oil last year was not an Arab but the "Light of the Aryans," the Shah of Iran. His country, the world's second largest oil exporter, quadrupled its petroleum earnings, to $20.9 billion. Impatient to industrialize and militarize, the Shah pressed the construction of automobile and petrochemical factories, dams and hospitals, and ordered 70 F-4 Phantom jets and 800 British Chieftain tanks to bolster a mighty armed force. This swelling strength raised apprehensions among some Arab governments in the region and evoked new hostility?but also won new respect...
Faisal consults senior princes and tribal chiefs on important matters, but final decisions are still his own. Unlike neighboring Bahrain and Kuwait, which are experimenting with legislatures, Faisal has no parliament, which he considers to be the crutch of a weak ruler...
...school." The survey showed that more than 1 million children were suspended from school last year-blacks at a rate twice as high as whites. In Macon, Ga., a 16-year-old black student was expelled for three months because he could not pay $5 to replace the ruler he had accidentally broken in shop...