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...hour state-of-theunion speech to the newly elected Majlis. To be sure, the Shahanshah remains firmly in command of land reform, foreign affairs, financial matters and other basic policies. But as the Shah's skillful grand vizier, Alam has done more to modernize the Peacock Throne than any other Premier in the nation's history...
Princeton, on the other hand, is suddenly in the position of being one of the few legitimate pretenders to the Ivy throne. The Tigers can be expected to want to win badly enough to come away...
...years, Persia has been overrun by conquerors ranging from Alexander the Great to Omar I the Caliph to Tamerlane. Never had it witnessed such a visitation as last week, when the grandeur of Charles de Gaulle met the pomp of the Peacock Throne...
RICHARD AUSTEN BUTLER, a parliamentary pundit once observed, "always looks as if he will be the next Prime Minister-until it seems the throne may actually be vacant." Butler has been deputy to all three postwar Tory Prime Ministers-Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan -and after the 1956 Suez debacle had every expectation of succeeding Eden at 10 Downing Street. When the party picked Macmillan instead, "Rab" Butler, though bitterly humiliated, said bravely: "Well, it is something to have been almost Prime Minister...
Whether or not he actually wins the throne this time, Britain's cool, complex Deputy Prime Minister is in charge of the government for the time being, and by any measure he has had far the widest and longest administrative training for the top job. He is hard to fault for past mistakes, since he had no responsibility for Suez and hardly any for the Common Market failure, not to mention the Keeler scandal. Moreover, Rab is renowned for his patience. "He seems," says one commentator, "to act in decades and think in centuries...