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...timeless talk about rain, marriages and hardship had given way to the excitement of an epochal event: the country's first free elections. "We want the same things as the rest of Europe -- freedom to go where we like, to work hard and to secure our future," said Shaban Sula, 37, who works on a nearby collective farm. But in Mamuras, where Europe seems like a distant continent, his words betrayed a wistfulness born of generations of cultural and political isolation...
Knives & Ice Cream. Without waiting for the government to solicit his services, a fierce, black-bearded giant named Shaban Jafari cruised the polling places through the week with his ragged associates-the Society of Gallant Men-to flex his muscles on behalf of Zahedi candidates. Tough, rough Shaban, who is called the "Brainless One," came out of Teheran's slums, was once Iran's national wrestling champion. In the past he put his brawn to work for Mohammed Mossadegh, and in his behalf used to sack opposition newspaper offices. Now professing loyalty to Zahedi, the man who threw...
...busy day Shaban eased his bulk into a café chair and poked at a dish of ice cream. His score for two days was 50 hospitalized, "mostly Communists." "We did better than the police and the soldiers together," Brainless boasted. "I know Shaban is a little rough," said Ardashir Zahedi, U.S.-educated son of the Premier, "but . . . he is against the Communists...
...Russell Allen, J. Sinclair Armstrong, Edward L. Barnes, Nathaniel G. Benchley, Peter T. Brooks, John L. Dampeer, C. Colton Daughaday, Jr., Morris Earle, Joseph Franklin, H. Bruce Griswold, A. Jerome Himelhoch, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Francis Keppel, Elliott B. Knowlton, Wiley E. Mayne, Philip T. Shaban, Vernon H. Struck, Alvah W. Sulloway, Robert W. Snyder, Caspar W. Weinberger, and Gibson Winter...
Acting as ushers will be the following: John Derman '36, Head Usher, Walter L. Crampton '36, Peter Ward '36. Thomas G. Curtis '36, Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, George G. Hedblom '37, C. Russell Allen '33, and Philip T. Shaban...