Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the French, joy was unalloyed?except by smugness. "Was it ever in doubt?" murmured Premier Georges Pompidou during a visit to Teheran. "This is the result of the clairvoyant action of President de Gaulle with regard to the Viet Nam War," exulted long-time De Gaulle Critic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Some French officials saw the parley as an opportunity for le grand Charles to establish himself as an outsize hyphen between East and West and a buffer between Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks?perhaps overlooking such notable...
Iran last week celebrated Siezdahbedar, the 13th day of the Persian New Year, when evil spirits descend upon the cities and city dwellers flee to the countryside to have a picnic lunch beside a running stream. Thus there were no cheering crowds when Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin came to Teheran for a week-long state visit. But no difference: Kosygin was more than welcome. After years of nearly total dependence on the West, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi is turning his country increasingly toward Russia, his once hostile northern neighbor, seeking friendship, trade and backing for his ambitious industrial development plans...
...Struggling to advance from muscle power to the machine, its people anxiously eye their smokeless horizons in search of capital to build factories, hire managers and export young men to universities from Göttingen to Berkeley. They cast an envious glance at such cities as San Juan and Teheran, which have risen from squalor to considerable splendor in less than a generation. The modern influences of communications-tourists, transistor radios, Hollywood films, advertisements-have carried to every mud hovel in the world the idea that cash and credit can help men build a better life; .that capital can create...
...last two years, UNESCO has concerned itself closely with the problems of wiping out illiteracy. A 1965 Teheran Conference marked the start of a six country project. The six countries-- Iran, Mali, Algeria, Ecuador, Guinea, and Tanzania--were chosen from the 50 applicants for their "readiness": they all more or less had successful literacy programs under way already; and the governments were willing to apportion a good deal of energy--and money (60 per cent of cost)--to the program...
Iran withheld nothing in its clamorous celebration of the event, which was to last for seven days and seven nights. Planes bombed Teheran with 17,532 roses-one for every day of the Shah's life. Cannons pounded out a 101-gun salute. The Teheran Symphony Orchestra played a new coronation hymn ("You are the shadow of God"), and unofficial Poet Laureate Lutfali Suratgar read a three-minute ode ("The crown and throne of the King of Kings shone over the world as the sun and the moon shine in the firmament"). Mountaineers planted golden crowns atop the country...