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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the rubble heap that had once been the quiet farming village of Buin walked Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran. On either side, the ruins of mud-brick houses were piled high above him; the sickening stench of unburied bodies poisoned the air. Grimy, sobbing villagers milled around him. "I have lost all I had. O Father of the Nation," cried one old woman, falling to her knees. "My husband, two sons, four daughters, and my two brothers with their nine children...
...Wailed the village mullah of Danesfahan, where 3,200 of 4,500 inhabitants perished: "We have brought this evil on ourselves. It is God's vengeance for our sins." But the real evil, experts decided, lies in the peasants' age-old technique of building thick-walled, mud-brick houses that instantly collapse on their occupants in an earthquake. After his inspection, the Shah announced plans to rebuild the nation's 50.000 mud-hut villages.* It will take at least 15 years-if new earthquakes do not hasten the task...
...Daltas designed for the Shah's younger sister, Fatemeh, is walled in travertine, teakwood and glass, and alive with water and sunlight. But the most striking feature is the roof. Columns formed by eight 2-in. steel tubes rise and fan out to support octagonal canopies of glazed brick, interspersed here and there with clear glass skylights...
...soyan, who wrote Off Broadway's phenomenally successful Little Mary Sunshine, has done another parody of the schmalzerettas of the '20s called The Student Gypsy, or The Prince of Lieder-krcmz. Starring Eileen (Little Mary) Brennan, this one is for Broadway (Jan. 31). England's red-brick musical, Stop The World-I Want to Get Off, is a rags-to-Establishment story (Oct. 3). Sid Caesar has eight roles-four husbands, four lovers-in Little Me, based on Patrick (Auntie Mame) Dennis' book...
...been there about a year, one man got in and robbed the smokehouse where all the meat was, and the others got mad and they killed him. That was the end of that Russian business." Byrd heads back down a bridle path, the Shoreham's sandy-colored brick looming above the trees. "When I was Gover nor they asked me if Winston Churchill could come down and visit. He wanted to see the battlefields. The only trouble was that when he got there, they told me he drank a quart of brandy a day. It was strict Prohibition...