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...worth more than $500 million and an influx of $2 billion in foreign investment capital, the Shah has launched his country headlong into what is far and away the Middle East's fastest-moving, most ambitious development program. From broad, modern boulevards in Teheran to the effusion of makeshift classrooms in the hinterlands, it has already begun to change the life and look of Iran...
...motion, the traffic laws of topology." Gabo proclaimed: "Look at a ray of sun-the quietest of the silent strengths-it runs 300,000 kilometers in a second. Our starry sky -does anyone hear it?" But whether attuned to the music of the spheres or the metallic clanking of makeshift machines, artists by the score are now trying to make poetry out of motion. Among the leaders (all shown in following color pages...
...during five long years just one heroic officer has escaped. Actually, he is a tuberculous wreck, coughing his life away in an attic hiding place overhead. The only truly noble officer so despises his fellow prisoners that he spends most of his time in the isolation of a large makeshift box, reading...
Other Peace Corps workers helped organize a makeshift ambulance service that shuttled moaning survivors 40 miles south to the nearest hospital at Sokode, where a French doctor and Togolese nurses worked all night setting fractures, amputating shattered limbs and stitching wounds. In Sotouboua, stunned villagers buried their dead and feared for the future; nearly all the village's men had been killed or severely hurt...
Although the play's charm is evident in the production at the Experimental Theatre, a sea of troubles often threatens to drown it. Despite some good individual performances and occasionally imaginative directing, the production is a makeshift job. What is worse, the company never seems to relax and devote itself unselfconsciously to making the fantasy work...