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When Farah Diba, an Iranian Girl Scout, and basketball captain of her Teheran school, married the Shah of Iran in 1959, Iranian women were traditionally considered to have "more hair than brains." However, by 1963 Farah's influence on the Peacock Throne was obviously being felt: the Shah gave women the vote. Winding up a private visit to Paris, Empress Farah, 35, stopped off to see the latest portrait of herself, a larger-than-life work by French Painter Edouard Mac'Avoy. The background shows Iran happily progressing toward the millennium: ancient columns mingling with oil derricks, children...
Over 1,000 volunteer and professional Scout leaders attended the 2-day meeting which featured business and organizational sessions, training seminars and conferences, as well as several events to motivate and recognize the work of the region's adult volunteers. Directing the confab was R. Heath Larry, vice-chairman of the board, United States Steel Corporation. is a slate in name only, with its members holding different positions on major issues, it is expected to help the conservative voter identify his kind of politicians...
...said that during freshman orientation week only a few residents knew of the opportunity to make free long-distance phone calls, but after about three weeks the phone was in almost constant use in the evenings. He said that on busy nights, someone would stand by the curb to scout for approaching advisers...
...loss was understandable, however. He had taken the law boards earlier that morning and had not had a chance to scout the unfamiliar Cornell course. Leading early in the race, he veered off the course several times and lost precious seconds in his battle with Cornell...
...with each other through a complicated, highly articulate language of dance. He found, for instance, that a bee returning from a source of honey near the hive will perform a "round" dance, but if the source is more than about 160 ft. away, he will "waggle" instead. When the scout bee steps forward during the waggling dance, it points the way to the source. Having written the classic book on the subject, The Dancing Bees, Von Frisch went on to publish Man and the Living World (1936), an ethological survey of the life sciences. It ranges from behaviorist speculations...