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Trouble began when the Pope visited the slum district of Sant' Elia on the fringes of Cagliari to demonstrate his concern for the struggling poor of Sardinia. While he was accepting gifts of fish and lobster and speaking to a crowd of 4,000 slumdwellers, a group of 20 anarchists held a protest near by. They called Paul an Antichrist, and insisted that Sant' Elia needed toilets and pharmacies more than papal visits. Police moved in to end the demonstration, and a fight broke out; 26 people were injured and 21 arrested before it was stopped. Some stones...
...Pope." Back in the Vatican, Paul used a routine audience at St. Peter's to blast the press. "They are no longer papers of information but deformation," he said. "They turned our visit upside down." Paul and his advisers were apparently worried that the confrontation at Sant' Elia might set a precedent that would encourage demonstrators to seek free publicity during future papal visits...
...year ago, wrote Baker, a theater script had been rejected as too far-out because it had Khrushchev's nephew defecting to the U.S. and joining the John Birch Society. But life outdid art. "Stalin's daughter defected to the U.S. and joined Sam Levenson and Elia Kazan in the society of bestsellers...
Gyimes staged an off-Broadway revival of Ibsen's Lady from the Sea that lasted only three weeks but got Sandy an agent who wheedled her into a Palm Beach production of William Inge's Bus Stop. At the same time, Elia Kazan was casting Inge's new Broadway production, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and when Tuesday Weld suddenly lammed for Hollywood, Sandy became understudy for two roles. She used to report in with a pun reflecting her desperation: "Dennis, anyone...
Meanwhile, Elia Kazan remembered her "originality" and cast her as Natalie Wood's nasty girl friend in her first film, Splendor in the Grass. Then came "my most favorite play, my favorite experience," A Thousand Clowns. "Before that, I was always in a position to be fired. After every rehearsal, I knew they were discussing whether to let me go." Besides, the Clowns company (including Gene Saks, William Daniels, Jason Robards) meshed like the Budapest String Quartet. Robards was "wild, fantastic, my most favorite actor that I ever worked with." Among other things, "he taught me what it means...