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...ripping up placards and setting one army truck afire to shouts of, "We don't want this government!" When Ne Win ordered the closing down of Rangoon university last week, the students, led by leftist agitators, barricaded the gates and staged a sit-in. Bulldozers ordered out to smash the barricades were beaten back with hurled stones, and fire hoses failed because of insufficient water pressure. Finally, tough riot police with tear gas dislodged the students. Three other universities at Bassein, Moulmein and Mandalay were padlocked by the government...
Some revered anthems began as jokes -for example, The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You, born in 1903 when Carry Nation visited Austin to smash up a saloon near the University of Texas. Warning his lads not to "cheer this poor deluded woman," President William L. Prather begged them to remember that "the eyes of Texas are upon you." In barely two years, the resulting gag song (to I've Been Working on the Railroad) was sufficiently solemnized to be sung at Prather's funeral...
...more like the start of a successful theatrical comedy than a successful marriage, but it turned out to be both. The marriage has been running ten good years. Neil Simon's comedy, called Barefoot in the Park, may run that long too; it is the first and only smash of the present Broadway season and is already sold out through February. With Elizabeth Ashley as his spritely wife and Robert Redford as a rough facsimile of himself, the play precisely duplicates the events, rents and blizzards of the Simons' golden past, with deliverymen reeling into view like sherpas...
...Iranian minister stood at bay, staring down the muzzle of a gas pistol. The cold-eyed German behind the gun worked quickly and methodically. A spy caught in the act? A would-be assassin? No. All Hermann Reissmeier wanted was to smash a dozen windowpanes and thus "collect" an outstanding debt...
Stilts & Filler. Two packs of savage short-haired dogs, Pavlovingly trained by Victoria Olkhovikova, line up every night to play soccer. They head the ball expertly, smash into one another, knock over nets and goal posts in canicidal scoring rushes, spill out of bounds by the yelping dozen, and engulf helpless photographers in their wild, uncontainable scrimmage. A man walking on 8-ft. stilts steps onto a springboard; two men jump onto the other end of the springboard, and the stilt man arcs into the air, 25 ft. up, slowly turning over in a backward somersault, landing perfectly...