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...sales rose, so did Philip's influence in the company; in 1958 he became president. Though he has kept a good many older patterns for nostalgic buyers, the Studio Line now accounts for 67% of Rosenthal porcelain sales. Among Studio Line patrons are Elizabeth Taylor. Audrey Hepburn, the Shah of Iran, the Begum...
...platform jutting from a sheer, null gorge in the Zagros Mountains, the Shah of Iran picked up a ceremonial telephone and spoke an order. Seconds later, tons of water from the Ab-i-Diz River below crashed through sluice gates and began turning giant dynamos. A knot of Cabinet ministers, diplomats and engineers burst into hat-waving cheers as. down in the canyon, electricity began flowing into Moslem villages that had never before known the magic of plug-in power...
Thus last week Iran's huge, $67.2 million "Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi Dam." highest in the Middle East* went into operation as another feather in the crown of the country's 43-year-old reform-minded monarch. To help finance the dam. the World Bank loaned Iran $42 million, but the rest of the cash came from the Shah's $300 million annual oil revenues. To oversee the project. Iran picked two ex-chairmen of the U.S.'s Tennessee Valley Authority. David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, who now head a Manhattan-based consulting firm...
...long run. Iran hopes to build 13 more dams to irrigate much of the semi-arid land currently being handed out to peasants under the Shah's big agrarian reform program, which was approved 1,000-to-1 in a national referendum in January. With the nation behind him, the Shah has pushed steadily ahead with his land split-up, despite loud outcries from the big landowners. A few weeks ago, one outraged group, the nomadic Qashqai (pronounced gosh guy) tribesmen, who herd cattle in the Southern province of Ears, registered its protest by attacking Iranian police posts, killing...
Born. To Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 43, Shah of Iran, and Farah Diba, 24, his third wife: their second child, first daughter; in Teheran...