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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since he reluctantly divorced Queen Soraya in 1958, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, has been window-shopping through Europe. In his search for a new bride who would present him with a son and heir, the Shah's wandering eye was caught by Italy's pretty Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, 19. But the Vatican, all Italy, and the girl herself proved unalterably opposed to the marriage. Last week his capital of Teheran was alive with signs that the Shah had found both happiness and the bride he wanted in his own country...
...Search for Facts. In Florida, the U.S. started investigating the charges "with great urgency," and two days later the FBI got its man: ex-Air Force Chief Diaz Lanz. He admitted to the FBI that he had written the pamphlets (calling Castro "the real traitor of the revolution") and flown the rented DC-3 out of an airstrip "near Miami." Searching the books to determine whether Diaz Lanz had violated any law, the U.S. took note that there are 280 airstrips in Florida. The U.S. asked the Inter-American Peace Commission, troubleshooting arm of the Organization of American States...
John Cage: Indeterminacy (Music by David Tudor; Folkways, 2 LPs). In a search for a "new aspect of form," Composer Cage has glued 90 spasmodically rhythmic anecdotes (on such random subjects as a mushroom exhibition in Paris, a bridge-playing composer in "the loony bin") to the piano and electronic music of Fellow-Composer Tudor. The result is new, all right, and even engaging in spots, but for the most part it will remind the first listeners of a dyspeptic after dinner speaker talking through an electrical storm into a TV set with a faulty tube...
...from a wider geographical range than ever before, thanks to its expended and still growing Admissions Traveling Program. George B. Peters, Dean of Men, will soon leave Philadelphia for a week of canvassing the Kansas City-St. Louis area. Only one of many administration and faculty members who search the country yearly for Penn prospects, he will visit 20 schools and numerous alumni groups in an attempt to attract good students from beyond the limits of the Main Line...
...educational institution which claims to support the search for truth wherever it may lie can coexist with any law that makes some form of thought a crime," it states...