Word: teheran
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...through an Iran relay station, the Voice of America beamed an account of the Shah's glad-hand tour. When the Shah returned to his country he decided to continue the Voice relays. For 15 minutes daily since then, the Voice has been heard from the Teheran medium-wave station. Last week the Shah's government silenced the VOA relay broadcasts. The order came a few days after Iran's government had signed a trade barter agreement with the Soviet Union...
...professor set to work, gave the quatrains a literal translation (the manuscript contained 172 of them), and published them in a small (400 copies) deluxe edition. But no sooner had he completed the task than a Persian book dealer came all the way from Teheran to see him with a browned and ancient sheaf of papers. Arberry recognised that this Rubáiyát was older still. It had been copied out only 75 years after Omar's death, contained 252 quatrains...
...entered the diplomatic service in 1924, worked in Teheran, Rome and at Whitehall. During World War II he held an important post in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, then took charge of postwar international planning. He played a key advisory role at Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta, San Francisco, did much of the British spadework for U.N. and the North Atlantic pact. Since 1948, as Deputy Under Secretary of State, he has been the trusted (and devoted) assistant to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin...
Last week Poolad Gurd was the marvel of Teheran, where a kindly member of Iran's royal family had brought him for an operation to cure his twisted spine. "If the operation is successful," said Poolad's doctor, "he may again be the strongest man in the world." Poolad himself was confident. While awaiting the knife, he lay across three hospital beds placed side by side, flirting with a petite nurse and considering an offer from a U.S. circus...
...Premier and Defense Minister, Razmara will continue to supervise the fighting trim of Iran's troops. To help him solve some of Iran's other pressing problems, the U.S. last week sent to Teheran a new ambassador, Henry F. Grady, who learned a lot about rehabilitating distressed nations during his years (1948-50) as ambassador to Greece during the civil war in that country...