Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early-morning horseback ride in Teheran on one of his Arabian stallions, Iranian Premier Assadollah Alam came across some building laborers who were grumbling about their low pay. The workers did not recognize Alam, and when he asked them why they had left their villages for the capital, one replied: "Well, we heard the Premier on the radio promising that workers would get a raise to 100 rials [$1.33] a day." Replied Alam, "Don't you know that all Premiers lie?" and casually trotted...
...sardonic urbanity and quick, quizzical intelligence, Alam, 45, is a British-educated aristocrat to his manicured fingernails. He is a millionaire by inheritance, married into one of Iran's greatest landowning families, and lives like a prince (which he is) in a palace on the slopes overlooking Teheran. Padding about in a silk dressing gown or British tweeds amidst his huge flower gardens, Olympic-sized swimming pool, stables and servants, Alam seems wildly unlikely as the administrator of revolutionary social reforms aimed at liberating the masses from centuries of feudalism. He is not even sure that he likes...
...Teheran, le grand Charles was welcomed by Iran's Shahanshah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, and his lovely Empress, Farah Diba-who share dulcet memories of France, since the Shah first met his young Queen-to-be while she was an architecture student in Paris. Through flag-bedecked streets rode De Gaulle in a gilded state carriage. Along the route, crowds chanted "Zindehbad [long live] De Gaulle," which turned out to be a particularly poetic cheer, since the visitor's name sounds like "Two Flowers" in Farsi, the Persian tongue. Ignoring Draconian security measures, Two Flowers moved right into...
...loses 62 flying days annually by not operating in or out of Tel Aviv's Lod Airport on the Sabbath and religious holidays. To meet orthodox dietary prohibitions, flights are scheduled so that Jewish passengers will not be stranded at mealtime in such nonkosher cities as Teheran and Athens. And at a cargo weight loss of 600 Ibs. each trip, El Al's jets carry extra pots and double sets of plates for meat and dairy dishes. Extreme Orthodox Jews, like those of the Hasidim sect, still refuse to eat El Al's meals. They are served...
...trucks, with their prepaid votes in hand. For the first time in a parliamentary election, veiled women in wrap-around chadors lined up with the menfolk at polling booths. Although the Shah put anti-reform Moslem mullahs (priests) under house arrest, barred political rallies, and closed up 75 Teheran dailies and weeklies, his most vociferous critics agreed that the crackdown was unnecessary...