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...From Teheran to Texas, many an oilman grumbled that the new deals would inspire other oil-rich Middle Eastern countries to cancel their present fifty-fifty deals and demand sweeter contracts. But calmer leaders in the industry brushed such remarks aside. Said Howard Page, Middle East boss for Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey): "Some oilmen say that it is immoral or something to bid in a certain way. Baloney! I certainly do not want anyone to tell...
...government offices and theaters all over Teheran last week, Queen Soraya's pictures were being taken down. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi had reluctantly and sadly given in to his court advisers and ended their seven-year marriage by royal proclamation...
Divorced. By Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 38, Shah of Iran: Soraya, 25, his Queen; in Teheran (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Soraya's father, Iran's Ambassador to West Germany, had broken his leg in a fall, Soraya threw on a mink coat and, with her mother, her Skye terrier and 42 pieces of luggage, set off for Cologne. Two days later her uncle, Assad Bakhtiari, arrived from Teheran as an emissary of the 38-year-old Shah, held a three-hour bargaining session with Soraya and her parents in a carnation-filled embassy room dominated by a huge oil painting of the Shah. His reported offer: unless Soraya agreed to the Shah's taking a second wife...
...week's end the disconsolate Queen was trying to find amusement at roulette, the movies and television. Back in Teheran, some courtiers felt sure that, on reflection, Soraya would reconcile herself to sharing the Shah with another wife. Said one courtier: "Women have been known to change their minds...