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...Death to the Shah!" shouted 500 protesters, punctuating that now familiar chant with sticks and rocks hurled toward the elegant hillside mansion. Then out came the torches. Two cars were burned, and at least a dozen other fires ignited. When a police car arrived on the scene, it tore into the crowd at an estimated 35 m.p.h., knocking one woman onto the car's hood and carrying her for more than 20 ft. Eventually, police armed with tear gas, billy clubs and fire hoses broke...
...semester. A good many productions planned for March and early April are auditioning this week. Tonight is the final try-out session for the Loeb Mainstage's production of Candide, based on the Hal Prince musical that was a smash in New York several seasons ago. Director Prince literally tore up the theater, ripping up seats and laying down ramps and platforms. The effect was that of a three-ring circus, with the actors singing, dancing and sometimes shoving their way among the spectators. Reviewers praised the show for maintaining the satiric spirit of Voltaire's 18th-century masterpiece, which...
...whisked Lady Annabel Birley off for a private wedding ceremony-in Paris of all places. When the couple left Goldsmith's Paris office, Daily Express Photographer Bill Lovelace snapped some pictures. Sir Jimmy ran at him "like a mad bull," grabbed his camera, then dragged Lovelace inside and tore ? out the film. Gossip columnists, the press lord groused later, "are diseases like the flu, and everyone is subject to them." Well, almost everyone...
...Shah to put together a coalition government that would include members of the opposition National Front, an alignment of moderate political groups as well as the two leading Muslim religious leaders, the Ayatullahs Khomeini and Sharietmadari (see box). On Saturday night, students at the University of Tehran tore down a statue of the Shah that stood at the entrance to their campus. Iranian soldiers, who had been under orders to use restraint since the "Black Friday" demonstrations on Sept. 8 that left hundreds dead, suddenly turned tough and fired into the crowd, killing eight and wounding...
...Quaker Wishbone (nearly 400 yards on the day) tore up the Astroturf the way Secretariat tears up dirt, and before you could say Frank Rizzo, Penn had a two-touchdown lead after its first two possessions...