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...From his home in exile in Egypt, Reza Pahlavi, the elder son of the late Shah, last week marked his 20th birthday by proclaiming himself Shah of Iran and calling on his countrymen to join forces in ending the "nightmare" wrought by the Iraqi invasion and the revolution that ousted his father from the Peacock Throne...
...hurtled right back up into double digits. During the month, prices rose by 1%, which was the highest increase since June and translates into a compound annual inflation rate of 12.7%. The surge was led by food prices, which are climbing partly as a result of the damage wrought by the summer drought on crops and livestock herds. The cost of cars also jumped sharply, as did that of clothes and health care...
Poetry East (paperback,$3) is a new periodical, edited by Richard Jones and Kate Daniels. This debut edition offers an eclectic, mostly finely-wrought bunch of verse, including a section of Swedish poems, from the imagist miniatures of Harry Martinson to the brusque commonplaces of Sonja Akkeson ("There is an interest in Swedish poetry here in America which is quite remarkable," says editor Jones, perhaps somewhat hopefully); a healthy chunk of presumably new American work (including a moving tribute to Cesare Pavese by David Wojahn and a backhanded one to the Irish poet Patrick Kavanaugh by the redoubtable Louis Simpson...
Secondary education is an older tradition than grammar schooling in Cambridge; it was not until 1648 that a public school opened here. Located on Crooked St. (now Holyoke St.) across from the present site of the Hasty Pudding Club, the two-story stone building boasted "gable end-s...wrought in battlement fashion," and a "broad chimney on one side, of stone and brick, (which) gave promise of a generous fireplace within." The school's first master, Elijah Corlett, wore a wig and doublet while he taught his pupils--almost exclusively boys looking forward to entering Harvard. The first school moved...
...also played a role in creating today's environmental awareness; as he explains, birds act as a kind of "ecological litmus paper," reacting to changes in their surroundings long before man does. Even Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, learned "birding" from the guide. Finally, Peterson may have wrought some environmental changes himself; his followers have been so lavish in putting food out for birds that many cardinals, mourning doves and white-throated sparrows are now spending their winters in the North...