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Malek Abedi, 32, lived in the provincial capital of Shiraz with his wife and an eight-year-old son. While he was being driven home in a Jeep with two other land-reform officials, a band of 15 or 20 masked, armed horsemen stopped the car near town and ordered the occupants to get out. "Abedi was the first one out." recalled the driver, "and they immediately cut him down with shotgun and rifle fire." Without harming the other two officials, the killers fled...
...were already excited by a crisis of their own: the sacking of five secondary-school students on the official pretext that they had penciled whiskers on a picture of the Shah. (In fact, secret police said they were ringleaders of an outlawed Communist Party cell.) In Teheran and Shiraz, tough, rock-hurling students touched off the fiercest street fighting since 1952, when an earlier coalition of extremes maintained weepy Mohammed Mossadegh in power...
Some 500 government employees who have been drawing pay from several simultaneous jobs lost their sinecures. Chief sufferer: the chancellor of Shiraz University, who reportedly held twelve other high-salaried posts. Amini even dared to attack Ehsan Davaloo, Iran's caviar queen and intimate friend of short-tempered Princess Ashraf, twin sister of the Shah. Mrs. Davaloo was arrested and charged with having got her $450,000-a-year caviar concession by bribing officials...
...airport restaurant with 750,000 fresh eggs a year. A British contractor asked Greenleaf to set up a vast poultry farm in Libya (on a percentage basis). A businessman in Saudi Arabia, anxious to furnish Mecca with fresh eggs, offered Greenleaf a similar contract. At a subsidiary farm near Shiraz, Iran, Greenleaf stepped up production to supply Iran's egg market. This week Greenleaf also made its first shipment of eggs to Aramco in Saudi Arabia, which now imports them from Australia. Predicted Stevenson: in 1960 Greenleaf will triple its 1959 sales of $505,000 as well as profits...
ANECDOTES OF DESTINY, by Isak Dinesen (244 pp.; Random House; $3.75), tells how, once upon a time, there was a theological student of Shiraz who thought highly of angels-so highly that he made himself wings and got all set for flight to the angelic spheres. But the Shiraz authorities, who disapproved of high-flown ideas, dressed up a beautiful dancer to look like an angel and planted her on the roof of the student's house, where he studied the skies. By next morning the happy student had reached two important conclusions: that angelic conduct...