starring Woody Allen. Herman Wouk published his novel The Winds of War, which some years later would be made into a massive and popular mini-series for television. Fiddler on the Roof was the longest-running show in Broadway when it closed after 3,242 performances. Grease was playing on Broadway as well. Poet Ezra Pound died. Joseph Papp produced the plays Sticks and Bones by David Rabe and That Championship Season by Jason Miller. An important musical playing that year was Jesus Christ, Superstar, partially written by Andrew Lloyd Webber (Grun 571-573).
On July 25, 1972, several important events occurred on the world scene. It was on that day when the United States and the Sudan resumed diplomatic ties that had been severed with the 1967 war. Student demonstrations in Mexico caused the Mexican government to impose strict security measures to prevent street battles, bombings, and mass arrests. It was on this day that Democratic vice-presidential candidate Senator Thomas Eagleton told a press conference that he had
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