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...Teheran, a salesman from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. is hoping to get the signature of the Shah of Iran on a contract to buy a JetStar corporate jetliner. Indonesia's President Sukarno already owns one. So does Millionaire Harold S. Vanderbilt of Palm Beach and New York. But executive jets are running into stiff sales resistance from the very group for which they were intended: corporate executives. The difficulty is not salesmanship (a demonstration ride can be arranged at the drop of a hat) or a lack of a choice. Eleven planemakers, including four in the U.S., have corporate jets...
...with angry shouts. Two thousand workers invaded the university campus to battle students. In the teeming bazaar, steel-helmeted police beat back religious leaders who were attempting a three-day strike. All the excitement was over the social reforms of Iran's 43-year-old king of kings, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. After years of hesitation, the Shah at last was tearing the land from Iran's feudal village owners and religious leaders, distributing it to the peasants, and forcing factory owners to give workers a 20% share of their profits...
...Moslem mullahs (priests), whose shrine lands were up for leasing to Iran's landless farmers, did not like the idea at all. Students protested the Shah's dissolution of the Majlis (parliament) a year and a half ago after the legislators rigged elections, then crippled the royal land reform bill with 93 amendments. Since then, ruling by decree, the Shah has distributed 2,000,000 acres of private land (with compensation to owners) to some 50,000 peasant families in 3,500 villages...
...referendum called to give the nation's yes or no to his sweeping plans for aid to needy rural and city Iranians. Women, who got the vote for the first time in Iran's history, gathered at polling places to shout, "Long live Mohammed Reza Shah for granting us freedom." The nation's poor were equally enthusiastic, flocked to cast their ballots in unprecedented numbers. The Shah expected a landslide victory, and sure enough, early returns backed his referendum by the lopsided margin of 1,000 to one. The popular enthusiasm was doubtless aided by the Shah...
...Reza Shah ordered the women of Iran to abandon their veils, but over the years few other barriers to women's equality have fallen. Two months ago, Reza's son, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, issued a decree that had the effect of giving 2,000,000 women the right to vote and run for provincial and town assemblies. The right was implied, but no less effective for it. "Except for the mentally deranged or those with criminal records," stated the decree, "every Iranian individual has the right to vote and be elected...