Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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IRAN (pop. 18,381,000): Head of state: SHAH MOHAMED, 31. Premier: MOHAMMED MOSSADEQ. Only large organized political party: the Tudeh (Masses, i.e., Communists). Army: 145,000 men, outdated equipment. Main issue...
While His Majesty was on the operating table, he also had another matter taken care of: his physicians did a quick plastic surgery job on the scar which had marred his right shoulder ever since 1949, when he was shot by a nationalist fanatic who thought the Shah was too friendly with foreigners...
Secretly the Shah summoned Dr. Claude Forkner of Cornell University to Iran and, on Forkner's recommendation for an immediate appendectomy, sent off to the U.S. for New York Hospital's Surgeon in Chief Frank Glenn, plus another U.S. surgeon, plus an expert anesthetist, plus three U.S. nurses...
...afternoon last week the Shah climbed into his No. 2 Rolls-Royce, set out for Teheran's Bank Melli Hospital. As his car drove through the gates, loving subjects performed a ceremonial operation: they deftly sliced the heads off two sheep and tossed them under the wheels, which (according to old Iranian custom) would bring good luck...
...hospital, the Shah, who looked pale and shaken, climbed into bed. His smartly dressed bride-who looked as though she had been crying all day-anxiously spent the night in the hospital. Next morning, the foreign scalpel flashed, and within two hours the Shahinshah was being wheeled down the corridor to his suite...