Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Assassination Plot at Teheran (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Dramatization of the rumored Nazi attempt on the lives of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill...
Caracas 150 Guatmala City 103 Santiago 95 Teheran 92 Baghdad 92 Montreal 92 Mexico City 91 Paris 90 New Delhi 90 Manila 89 Beirut 86 Bogotá Lima 84 Geneva 82 London 82 Buenos Aires 82 Rome 81 Karachi 81 Istanbul 76 Vienna 75 Rabat 75 The Hague 73 Rio de Janeiro 71 Copenhagen 70 Cairo 62 The U.N.'s survey was based on the experience of its own civil servants, who live on middling but tax-free incomes; thus the figures reflect not the cost of living of native citizens but that of foreigners living on foreign incomes...
...Istanbul. In 1514, that famous throne did not even exist. The Peacock Throne was installed by Shah Jahan, Mogul Emperor of Taj Mahal fame, at Delhi. It was carried off by the Persian invader Nadir Shah in 1739, and now stands in the Gulistan Palace, a museum in Teheran, Iran...
...original Peacock Throne of Iran taken from Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1739 has disappeared. The Peacock throne now in the Gulistan Palace, Teheran (see cut) was built in the early loth century by an Isfahan jeweler for Path Ali Shah and was originally called the Sun Throne. There is another throne in the Istanbul museum which is referred to as a Peacock throne...
Caviar & Hairdos. To wealthy Iranians with little stomach for austerity, he cried, "If my government falls, then everyone's life will be in danger. You and you and you." Dr. Amini stepped on sensitive toes by closing Teheran's glittering $9,000,000 airport to all foreign-bound Iranians except those traveling on bona fide business. First casualties were a bevy of Teheran socialites who were sent home in tears. Unmoved, Amini snapped: "Some ladies have been in the habit of going to Paris for hairdos." He slashed imports to save $50 million, arguing that once foreign luxuries...