Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baubles for Soraya. This was a consolation gift for her agreeing to remain a while in Rome for her "health." Then he boarded a chartered K.L.M. airliner for Bagdad, where he put on his gold-braided air marshal's uniform (specially flown from Teheran). He piloted his own twin-engined Beechcraft on the final leg to his capital...
Dessert. When the Shah's twin sister Princess Ashraf flew in from Cannes, Ehrman was the only reporter to recognize her in the lobby, bolted over to introduce himself. By then he had been photographed so often with the Shah that the Princess said: "Oh, I recognize you from your pictures." Ehrman got her into a corner for another exclusive chat. Later, when the Shah decided to take 20 newsmen back to Teheran with him, he pointed to Ehrman saying: "The news of the new developments was brought to me by a newspaperman, and from then on, my hours...
...northern Iran, at Ramsar on the Caspian Sea, where he and his pretty Queen were vacationing, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi heard the news of the failure. With Queen Soraya,* he boarded his private twin-engine plane and flew to safety in Bagdad (where he landed unrecognized, asking the name ' of a good hotel). In Teheran, Mossadegh, confined to his iron cot and closely guarded, counted one more obstacle out of his way. Now, though his unhappy country has lost one more source of stability, there was little left to challenge him except the Communist-led mobs, who now sing...
...religion. Perhaps at the root of all the causes was the inevitable reaction against the prim Victorian era, which itself was not nearly so safe & sound as it appeared. For beneath its placid surface, a social and intellectual revolution had long been rumbling, which enshrined science and progress as twin gods and established a view of man as a creature governed more by "environment" than by preordained morality...
...twin births are declining, reported Obstetrician Alan F. Guttmacher, of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital, in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Until 1939, one out of every 86 births in the U.S. was a twosome. By 1949, the U.S. twin rate had dropped to one in 97, and the ratio is going farther down. Dr. Guttmacher, an identical twin, believes there are some undiscovered biological or environmental factors affecting the glands of U.S. mothers...