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...Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran and his pretty bride of last December, Queen Farah, took in the sights of the Shatt-al-Arab river port of Khorramshahr from the deck of the Iranian ship Syrus. There was still no official confirmation of Farah's pregnancy (TIME, March 14), but the beribboned Shah was smiling with a secondary gleam...
Everybody in the know in Iran was broadly hinting that pretty Queen Farah, 21, the Shah's third wife and his bride of two months (TIME, Jan. 4), is expecting. From the royal palace in Teheran came a wave of unofficial tidings, all affirmative. Said one court official: "From the Shah's smile, you can get the best confirmation of the good news...
...Akihito's trip until well after President Eisenhower's visit to Japan in June, "to prevent members of the imperial family being used as a political instrument." Besides, they said, the Crown Prince should first repay visits from Ethiopia's Haile Selassie and Iran's Shah. Last week, blandly ignoring earlier pledges of a U.S. trip in May, the inflexible chamberlains declared that "the Imperial Household Board will work out its own plans for an autumn overseas tour" by Akihito, "independent of any political considerations...
Last May in his capacity as Chief Supervisor of Iranian Students Abroad, the Shah's son-in-law Ardashir Zahedi discovered Farah Diba, the pretty young Iranian art student in Paris who last month ascended the Peacock Throne as the Shah's third wife (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week, for this and other services to the crown, tall, handsome Zahedi was appointed Iran's new Ambassador...
...Western Europe). Son Ardashir earned an agricultural degree at Utah State University and, in the process, developed a great liking for the U.S. and U.S. ways. American officials gratefully remember him as the young engineer who worked tirelessly with them to make Point Four a success in Iran. The Shah is reportedly upset by increasing criticism of Iran in the U.S., hopes that his knowledgeable son-in-law will be able to combat it. And attractive 19-year-old Princess Shahnaz, who speaks excellent English and French, should be a welcome addition to Washington reception lines...