Word: teheran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Iran's Tudeh (Communist) Party is officially outlawed, but in the dingy bazaars of Teheran and Tabriz there are always a few dozen of its members busy plotting the downfall of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his regime. Last week, as the Shah departed for a tour of Sweden, Belgium and Austria, the army took five arrested Tudeh members from their cells and shot them. An "unofficial" source explained that the executions were designed to be an object lesson to plotters who might have been thinking that the Shah's absence would be an opportune moment...
...surrounding mountains. Over the course of five days, successive quakes trapped and killed rescue workers trying to dig out survivors from the first disaster. France offered a stethoscope device successfully used in Agadir in March to detect still breathing victims trapped beneath the rubble. The U.S. naval attache in Teheran flew a DC-3 down to the stricken city with emergency supplies and took out survivors. At week's end Queen Farah, who is expecting her first child this fall, offered to take 200 motherless children of Lar into the royal orphanages...
Everybody in the know in Iran was broadly hinting that pretty Queen Farah, 21, the Shah's third wife and his bride of two months (TIME, Jan. 4), is expecting. From the royal palace in Teheran came a wave of unofficial tidings, all affirmative. Said one court official: "From the Shah's smile, you can get the best confirmation of the good news...
...TIME was printing no fewer than 21 editions at plants scattered from Bogotá to Manila, from Teheran to Stockholm. Thanks to air delivery, we were able to consolidate these into today's four international editions. A baffling complex of problems with distribution, censorship and currency restrictions almost smothered the venture in 1949, but as soon as the difficult decision to continue had been made, a steady growth toward today's circulation highs began...
I.L.N.'s features reflect the far-ranging enthusiasms of its editor. Convinced that "monarchy is the backbone of our nation," Ingram faithfully records the movements of the royal family, extends this interest to crowned heads from Tokyo (characteristic caption: "Another charming picture of the Japanese royal family") to Teheran (recent example: a shot displaying new Queen Farah's shapely legs to full advantage). World War I Captain Ingram is also partial to new weapons, runs meticulously detailed, cutaway drawings that have delighted readers from the time of the Dreadnought to the present-day Nautilus. Ingram has never...