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...first time on his trip, Nixon got out of his car in Warsaw to shake hands with onlookers. The Polish people responded by surging around him and singing "Sto Lat, Sto Lat," from the song May You Live to Be a Hundred. In Iran, Nixon conferred with Shah Reza Pahlevi, attended an elaborate white-tie dinner in the Niavaran Palace-and was far from three exploding bombs set by terrorists...
...away, you're all too young for me, and you don't let me get on with my business," said Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 66, to a clutch of newswomen in Teheran, as he arrived for some oil talks with the Shah. But Jacqueline Onassis, 42, doing her sightseeing and shopping thing, answered without hesitation when a woman reporter asked her if she is the same sort of person today as when she was married to President Kennedy. "I am today what I was yesterday and, with luck, will be tomorrow," she replied. "I am a woman...
...Shah of Iran dispatched his brother, Prince Mahmoud, and Prime Minister Amir Abass Hoveida to supervise rescue operations. Within four hours of the disaster, Iran's Red Cross, the Red Lion and Sun, was administering to the injured...
...other drug developments: in Geneva the district attorney issued an arrest warrant for Huchang Davallou, a member of the imperial entourage of the Shah of Iran, and charged him with supplying 35 gm. of pure opium to an Iranian resident of Geneva. Police discovered that Davallou was protected by diplomatic immunity. The Shah angrily broke off a skiing holiday in St. Moritz and, with Davallou in hand, quickly schussed back to Teheran. Swiss papers noted sarcastically that the Shah's regime had executed scores of Iranians for the same offense: trafficking in drugs...
...some 200 friends in from all over the world for a couple of days of drinking and dancing and laughing and looking at the birthday girl and her jewels. The lat est Elizabethan dazzler was a present from Burton: the flat, heart-shaped diamond given by 17th century Indian Shah Jahan to his wife, Mumtaz Mahal -for whom he built the Taj Mahal. Shah Richard promised to match the cost of the pendant (guesstimate: $100,000) with a donation to charity; he also said he would give UNICEF an amount equal to the bill for the party (perhaps another...