Word: persian
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Miserable little Qatar (pop. 35,000), a sun-seared knuckle of sand and stone jutting into the Persian Gulf, was a latecomer in the Middle East oil boom. But when oil poured out in 1949 and the gold started pouring in, wizened old (69) Sheik Ali bin Abdullah bin Qasim Al Thani had no trouble adjusting his spending habits to those of the other sheiks of Araby...
Later, around 500 B.C., the rebellious Greeks burned the buildings of the conquerors. Over these ruins the found a monumental structure believed to be part of an ancient Persian...
...trained athlete and soldier, shows aware ness of his power with every toss of his silvery royal head. Though he is only the second ruler in the Pahlevi dynasty-which dates from 1926-his profile might have been lifted straight from one of the bas-reliefs in the ancient Persian capital of Persepolis that Alexander conquered. If the Shah has little sense of humor and a prevalent cast of melancholy, it is perhaps because his life has been a sobering affair...
...only a contest between two men outdoing each other in pledged subservience to the Shah. And what hangs most ominously over all Iranian life, too often at court as well as in business life, is the ingrained Iranian tradition of corruption and favoritism, casually explained away by the Persian saying: "Let no man of rank be a tree without fruit...
...historian. Xenophon himself, though he had no direct knowledge of the man. fashioned an Education of Cyrus (Cyropaedia], which many students of the art rank as the world's first historical novel. Cyrus' name meant "shepherd." and his father was Cambyses. "the small King of the Persians' who ruled the Three Tribes living around the settlement called Parsagard, about 250 miles west of the Persian Gulf. Under Cambyses, the Persians were a peaceable lot. They kept few slaves, dutifully paid tribute to Astyages the Spear Thrower. King of the Medes, and lived by five things: "The seed...