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After the summit elevation of Moscow, Nixon's visits to Iran and Poland were inevitably anticlimactic. The Nixon party was received by some 500,000 cheering, flag-waving spectators in Teheran, and a smaller but animated crowd in Warsaw. For the first time on his trip, Nixon got out of his car in Warsaw to shake hands with onlookers. The Polish people responded by surging around him and singing "Sto Lat, Sto Lat," from the song May You Live to Be a Hundred. In Iran, Nixon conferred with Shah Reza Pahlevi, attended an elaborate white-tie dinner...
Nixon returns home this week after visits to Teheran and Warsaw, he will bring back a set of significant new facts-or a confirmation of facts that are gradually emerging...
...Nixon managed a colorful change of garb with only one gray suitcase and a plastic dress bag that she packed with 15 outfits, including a few that could be worn in any weather-a prime consideration for a woman traveling from Moscow to Teheran. Wherever she went, she was accompanied by wives of top Soviet officials, who are normally withdrawn and formal. They joined her for tea in the czarist family apartments in the Kremlin or posed gamely for incessant picture taking in front of statues in Red Square...
...away, you're all too young for me, and you don't let me get on with my business," said Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 66, to a clutch of newswomen in Teheran, as he arrived for some oil talks with the Shah. But Jacqueline Onassis, 42, doing her sightseeing and shopping thing, answered without hesitation when a woman reporter asked her if she is the same sort of person today as when she was married to President Kennedy. "I am today what I was yesterday and, with luck, will be tomorrow," she replied. "I am a woman...
...suspended between heaven and earth during half a day; then it was swallowed up." So wrote the Arab historian Jellal As-Soyuti about an earthquake in medieval Persia. Last week his apocalyptic description again became reality for the people of the lush Qir valley 560 miles south of Teheran...