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...dirty fun of a snitch," said another. A local socialite is planning an "Ear Ball" honoring Washingtonians mentioned in the column. The Star mails a gold-colored ear-shaped pin to all whose names have appeared, and some capital notables, including Presidential Assistant William Seidman and Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi, have worn these badges of celebrity in their lapels...
...Russian-born ballet star, and what have you got? A floor show-if the principals are Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who went into action last week at the Iranian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The occasion: a raucous, boozy party by Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi in honor of the American...
Ballet Theater. Zahedi's groupies included Ballerinas Alicia Alonso and Natalia Makarova, Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. But it was Taylor with her emerald-and-diamond baubles that caught the lights. It hardly mattered that pre-party rumors had erroneously linked Liz and Kissinger as dates for the evening. Sniffed Taylor imperially: "The important thing is that I came. Right...
...There's no starch at his dinners," said one Washington partygoer approvingly of Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi, 46. Once married to the Shah's daughter Princess Shahnaz, Zahedi has since 1973 been cultivating a playboy image. His friends say they are convinced his mission is simply to demonstrate the Iranian way of swinging. Zahedi likes to give lavish parties where he showers his friends with "yum-yum," his favorite word for caviar, champagne and diamonds. His wooing techniques are quaint. Recently, Zahedi startled a blonde with a chorus of "kitchy-kitchy-koos" over the dinner table. And Columnist...
...wine. The guests, all elegantly dressed, were a sprinkling of the capital's elite: the envoys and finance ministers of half a dozen nations, American and British financiers and top White House Aides Robert Hartmann and Philip Buchen. The host, the modern equivalent of a Levantine legate, was Ardeshir Zahedi, Iran's Ambassador to the U.S. There was pearl-sized gray caviar from the Caspian, of course. But the most remarked-upon item was the menu itself: it was lavishly printed on oversize imitation American dollar bills, British £5 notes, Swedish crowns and twelve other currencies. And dessert might...