Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saved my country again." It was not an idle boast. Among modern monarchs, the Shah, 47, is a pace-setting social reformer without whom Iran would long ago have turned to chaos. The trouble is that the Shah tempts Allah quite a bit. He zooms through the streets of Teheran at high speeds in his Ferrari-while police see to it that the traffic lights go green along his route. He loves to fly jets, such as Lockheed's F-104 Starfighter, and once crash-landed his one-engine Tiger Moth on a mountain. Although he is in good...
Poppy's plot is poppycock. Two U.N narcotics agents (Howard and Marshall) assigned to trace a shipment of radio activated opium from the poppy field of Persia to the junk shops of Harlem whip out their trusty Geiger counter and go lickety-click from Teheran to Geneva to Naples to Nice. En route they run a grim gauntlet of all-too-familiar thriller scenes (bang-bang on the Blue Train, hugger-mugger on the bad guy's yacht, hack-the-stripper in a nudie nightspot) and unpleasantly overripe chestnuts ("How'll we get there-take the midnight...
...transmissions, Tokyo duplicated the Eiffel Tower, only 40 ft. higher. Other antennas have risen in Cairo and Teheran. But the erection of TV towers has reached epidemic proportions only in Europe, where local papers breathlessly report every increase in height, meter by meter, as the towers rise...
...Accra, Algiers, Amsterdam, Bagdad, Bamako, Brussels, Colombo, Conakry, Copenhagen, Damascus, Djakarta, Helsinki, Kabul, Karachi, London, New Delhi, Nicosia, Paris, Rabat, Rangoon, Rome, Stockholm, Teheran, Tunis and Vienna...
...French government also signed a deal with Communist China last week to fly one Air France plane, inevitably a U.S.-built Boeing, into Shanghai every week. Probably beginning in September, Air France Flight 180 will leave Paris on Mondays at 11 a.m., stop in Athens, Cairo, Teheran, Karachi and Pnompenh, and wind up in Shanghai at 5:35 p.m. on Tuesday. Air France does not expect to make money on the service, but by extending its route miles it will strengthen its claim to the slogan, "The world's largest airline...