Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Churchill was one of the "Big Three" who directed the Allies' war efforts. He and President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 signed the Atlantic Charter in 1941. Later Churchill met with other Allied leaders at Casablanca, Tehran, Quebec, and Yalta, and urged them to demand the unconditional surrender of Germany and to set up a United Nations Organization...
Franklin goes unsung in the U.S., but is famous in the exotic cities listed on its Manhattan front door: Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, Tehran. Lahore, Dacca, Kuala Lumpur, Djakarta. In those places, far from Manhattan's Publishers' Row, Franklin in ten years has guided the printing of 26,477,800 books in such exotic languages as Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Bengali, Malay and Indonesian...
...Louis to The Universe and Dr. Einstein. Ferdinand in Twi. Franklin's biggest single venture is in Iran, where in 1957 it launched a handsome Golden Book geography. Royalties were so abundant that Franklin turned them into a loan for building a first-rate printing plant in Tehran, staffed by the newly trained graduating class of an orphan asylum. Out of this grew a healthy new Iranian textbook industry...
Americans, it would seem, are depressingly stolid, unemotional people. When a similar event occured recently in Iran, the populace filled the streets of Tehran, singing and shouting; a bank holiday was declared; and the Shah bestowed lavish gifts upon his happy people. Even in England, the event was a cause for some well-mannered public celebration...