“I feel as though I were beginning my second reign,” announced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi five weeks ago when he flew back to Teheran and to the throne of Iran.
IRAN: The New Shah
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Language: Spanglish Spoken Here
In Manhattan a first-grader greets her visiting grandparents, happily exclaiming, “Come here, sientate!” Her bemused grandfather, who does not speak Spanish, nevertheless knows she is asking him to sit down. A Miami personnel officer understands what a job applicant means when he says, “Quiero un part time.” Nor do drivers miss a beat reading a billboard alongside a Los Angeles street advertising CERVEZA — SIX-PACK! This free-form blend of Spanish and English, known as Spanglish, is common linguistic currency wherever concentrations of Hispanic Americans are found in the U.S