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...full of "killer sharks." On a trial run before the show, Knievel made it over the sharks but skidded into a retaining wall in Chicago's International Amphitheater and for the 13th time in his frangible career broke some bones: the right forearm and the left collarbone (his 55th and 56th breaks). After putting out a blizzard of P.T. Barnum-like press releases, all CBS got for its $500,000 fee was some taped footage of the crash, which it duly showed several times along with some live daredevil stunts. Meanwhile, twelve sharks shipped up from Florida...
Arguably the best steak house is Christ Cella (160 E. 46th St.) and the best seafood place the Gloucester House (37 E. 50th St.), both expensive. The two best French restaurants in town are La Caravelle (33 W. 55th St.) and Lutèce (249 E. 50th St.). Bring money...
JAZZ. Mondays, at Michael's Pub (211 E. 55th St.), a group called the New Orleans Funeral and Ragtime Orchestra cuts loose, featuring, on clarinet, a sweetly swinging, nonjoking Woody Allen. Freddie Hubbard plays some hard-driving trumpet at the Schaefer Festival in Central Park on July 14. Buddy Rich may be caught at Storyville (41 E. 58th St.). Uptown, at the Carlyle Hotel (Madison Ave. and 76th St.), Bobby Short wraps standards and show tunes in well-cut velvet, and downtown, in the Village, the Charles Mingus group explores the furthest perimeters of jazz...
...55th reunion class stands close to a tally of a quarter of a million dollars, an Ivy League record, he added...
...eyes of Iran's 32 million people, the prosperity and national prestige the Shah is bringing them has bathed their ruler with new luster. Thus last week, when the Shadow of God celebrated his 55th birthday-his 56th by Iranian reckoning, which counts the day of birth as one's first birthday-the national holiday was observed with particular fervor. The capital city of Tehran (pop. 3.8 million) glowed from the light of millions of colored lamps. As part of the festivities, the Shah and lissome Empress Farah reviewed a mass exhibition of gymnasts in the $185 million...