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...Iranian schoolgirls' record for the high and standing broad jump, gave birth. "Your Majesty, it's a boy!" cried Dr. Jahanshah Saleh, who is both the Queen's obstetrician and Iran's Minister of Health. The Shah raised his hands over his head in thanks to Allah for the heir for whom he had been hoping 21 years...
...then King Farouk, bore him a daughter but no son, and he divorced her in 1948. His seven-year marriage to Soraya, handsome daughter of a German-Iranian family, proved barren. His throne is none too secure, and the Shah and his advisers were convinced that a male heir was imperative if the monarchy was to survive. Regretfully, he divorced Soraya in 1958 and last year married Farah Diba, who had caught his eye while a blue-jean-clad student of architecture in Paris. The baby came ten months later. Even the day was lucky; it was the 34th anniversary...
With the usual dazzle of unconfirmable statistics, the North Koreans proudly contrast their achievements with South Korea. The North has less than half the South's population (10 million v. 24 million), but the Communists fell heir to 70% of undivided Korea's heavy industry, 90% of the electric power. 70% of the coal. Much of this capacity was destroyed during the Korean war, but the Reds say that by 1956 it was already back to prewar levels, and that since then output has doubled and even trebled. They claim that last year the North produced ten times as much...
...shuttered by the regime in January, prints 10,000 copies of a 6-in. by 9-in. miniature of a handsome, slick-paper tabloid, which are sneaked into Cuba by volunteer travelers, fishing boats, and roundabout from South America and Europe through unwatched commercial mails. Editor Jorge Zayas, aggressive heir to a publishing dynasty and grandson of a former President of Cuba, plans to add Miami social notes to the paper's steady diet of Cuban colony news. Although an estimated 7,500 copies of Avance reach Cuba every week (at least 2,500 are confiscated or dumped...
...Michigan unemployment mounted (as high as 16% in recession 1958), sales tax returns slumped, welfare costs soared. Soapy Williams, heir to a budget surplus of $21 million in 1949, was faced with a $110 million deficit by mid-1959 and practically no borrowing power. His proffered solution: pile a 5% profits tax on corporations, put a U.A.W.-endorsed income tax on middle and upper incomes, e.g., a family of four earning less than $6,333 Per year would pay nothing...