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...years Soviet transmitters beamed a propaganda barrage against neighboring Iran, including appeals for insurrection against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. These days Moscow's line is more seductive than destructive. In Teheran on a state visit last week, toasting the health of "Your Imperial Majesty," was the titular Soviet Chief of State, Leonid L. Brezhnev, one of Nikita Khrushchev's most promising prot...
Skillful Servant. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi does not want somebody else. After 15 highly successful months as Premier, Amir Assadollah Khan Alam was renamed last week to head Iran's Cabinet, promptly got down to business with a two-hour state-of-theunion speech to the newly elected Majlis. To be sure, the Shahanshah remains firmly in command of land reform, foreign affairs, financial matters and other basic policies. But as the Shah's skillful grand vizier, Alam has done more to modernize the Peacock Throne than any other Premier in the nation's history...
...their differences with Washington over the amount and type of U.S. aid received, were pleased to be wooed by De Gaulle. Loaded with gifts of silk Persian rugs, the regal invader prepared to fly off at week's end, apparently having impressed his host. Slightly starry-eyed, the Shah predicted that De Gaulle's visit would produce "good things, maybe marvelous things...
...will reluctantly admit that being a woman does help at times. When the Shah of Iran visited the U.S., Lisa was the only TV reporter to interview him. "I just walked up to him, took him by the hand, and sat him down on a couch," she reports...
Think what the Shah of Iran might have done if NBC's Chet Huntley had tried to take him by the hand...