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...some record for a monarch who once seemed ineffectual and powerless to stave off the growing discontent of Iran's poor masses. A decade before, few would have imagined that workers and farmers would be crying his slogans, waving his banners. But there they were on the eve of the big referendum called to give the nation's yes or no to his sweeping plans for aid to needy rural and city Iranians. Women, who got the vote for the first time in Iran's history, gathered at polling places to shout, "Long live Mohammed Reza Shah...
...ought to know: almost from the moment he was proclaimed King in 1952, assassins incited by Nasser propaganda have been gunning for him. In the decade since, Hussein has struggled manfully to develop his little land; today he happily supplies Yemen's royalists with money and munitions to stave off a Nasser victory that might sweep away the fruits of progress in his own country...
Dunster scoring is generally light, but the defense sparked by the big kicks of fullbacks Tony Olivieri and Tod Baker and the hustle of center halfback Andy Shaffer has managed to stave off late scoring threats...
Bulldozing. In 1958 the U.S. tried to stave off the coffee chaos by helping to set up a Coffee Study Group among all major coffee-producing countries; the effort failed because the Study Group's export quotas were not made binding. Delegates to the current U.N. conference all want a tougher international control system. The most promising plan calls for a five-year stabilization of coffee prices at the present level, or slightly higher...
...since then. Crump has steadfastly insisted on his innocence, maintaining that police used brutality to wring a false confession out of him. Because of involved legal technicalities, the fact that Tillman was a known dope addict, and Crump's charge of a forced confession, he has managed to stave off the executioner by carrying his appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, gaining 41 continuances and one retrial (he was convicted again) and evading 14 dates with the chair-one just seven hours away...