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After spending some time with Kermit, Miss Piggy, Trashman and the rest of Jim Henson's Muppets, the members of our staff who worked on this week's Show Business story underwent a remarkable transformation. They all began by assuming that Muppets were strictly for kids, but they ended up shaking Kermit's hand, being cautious in the presence of Statler and Waldorf, and avoiding the near lethal karate chops of Miss Piggy. "It's magic," says Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro. "The Muppets have something that is real: straightforward humanity. All of their feelings are right...
...point had been passed Sunday, when millions of Iranians staged peaceful demonstrations against the Shah throughout the country. Some government leaders, including the military governor of Tehran, General Gholam Ali Ovisi, had wanted to stop the demonstrators "mercilessly." But Premier Azhari, who is also the armed forces chief of staff, argued that bloodshed should be avoided at all costs, and the Shah agreed. Accordingly, the government promised to withdraw its forces to north Tehran, leaving the heart of the city free for the demonstrators. In return, the organizers of the demonstration promised to discipline their ranks and pledged that there...
Taking the muted approach, Stewart and his staff convened all 107 high school teachers at 7:15 a.m. and urged them to break the news to small groups of students during homeroom periods. "We decided not to interrupt school routine in any way," he said. During the day, the school's seven guidance counselors, joined by 15 Ridgewood clergymen, set up desks around the high school, offering counseling to any students who wanted...
...suitcases, and Muppet people live out of suitcases. Jim Henson gave up the key of his rented Mulholland Drive hacienda, with its obligatory indoor-outdoor clover-leaf-shaped pool, and flew to Manhattan. There he rallied the support troops at HA! headquarters and conferred with his increasingly large staff of business people...
DIED. George S. Brown, 60, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1974-78); of cancer; at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. A 1941 graduate of West Point, Brown became a pilot in the Army Air Corps and, among other missions, helped lead the celebrated low-level B-24 bombing raid on the oil fields of Ploesti, Rumania, in 1943. He was director of operations for the Fifth Air Force during the Korean War, served as military assistant to the Secretary of Defense (1959-63), and in 1968 became responsible for the U.S. air war in Southeast Asia...