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Yazdi is the son of a well-to-do Tehran merchant and was brought up in a strict Muslim home. While he was a microbiology student at Tehran University he joined the National Movement of Former Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. When Mossadegh fell from power in a U.S.-sponsored coup in 1953, Yazdi joined the National Resistance Movement, whose founders included Bazargan and Ayatullah Mahmoud Taleghani, leader of Tehran's 4 million Shi'ites. In 1960, after most political organizations in Iran had been driven underground and their leaders jailed, Yazdi and his wife Sourour left...
...more than warehousing the insane and performing the occasional crude Cuckoo's Nest lobotomy. Though most of Europe's intelligentsia remained unimpressed with Freud, a generation of largely Jewish disciples of the master, fleeing Hitler and the Nazis, spread the faith widely in the U.S. It quickly attracted the well-to-do, who could alford the treatment, and enticed the literati, who were smitten by the subtlety and symbolism of these fashionable excursions into the subconscious...
...entered the building, a country band struck up the tune Cotton-Eyed Joe, and the crowd of 1,500 people, mostly well-to-do Texans who had paid $50 each for their bleacher seats, began clapping rhythmically and yelling "whoopee" and "ah ha." When Teng put on a ten-gallon hat, the crowd howled with delight. He took off the hat and waved it cowboy-style over his head. To open the show, Teng and Foreign Minister Huang rode twice around the arena in a stagecoach drawn by two horses. The Vice Premier waved happily to the crowd and returned...
Azhari maintained that the Shah retained the support of the "silent people," the majority of his countrymen. The truth, however, is that much of the Shah's support has evaporated, except among the military, the well-to-do and the peasants. The country is staggering under a burden of rampaging inflation (current rate: 50% annually) and economic chaos engendered by the Shah's feverish efforts to modernize his backward nation within the space of a decade or two. There is no responsible opposition, his critics claim, because he has banned political expression for 25 years. The result...
...hoteliers are less worried about the ERA than the IRS. The new foreign convention tax rule is troublesome enough, but some convention industry officials fear that the Carter Administration may try to extend those restrictions, on grounds that the tax deductibility of conventions is a boondoggle for the relatively well-to-do. A valid point; poor people do not go to conventions much. Frets the lACVB's Hosmer: "It's the whole three-martini lunch idea. They may eventually start saying that a convention delegate can only deduct a portion of his expenses when he's in this country...