Show US U.S. Envoy nv y l Dons Dons ns Old Garb Builds Kids' Kids Playground Teheran Iran The natives of Teheran took one look at the Americans Ameri Ameri- Americans Americans cans at work in a park and concluded con con- concluded concluded it was just another stunt of crazy foreigners They were watching American diplomats who had discarded their striped pants for dungarees and joined a work project to give Iran Iran- Iranian Iranian Iranian ian children their first public play play- playground ground Led by Ambassador Henry F. F Grady officials at the American embassy and scores of their Per Per- Persian Persian Persian sian friends donned old clothes to work on the park They built chil chil- children's childrens childrens children's childrens children's drens dren's slides painted pavilions dug irrigation ditches for the gardens gardens' It was It-was was all an astonishing sight for formost formost formost most Iranians who traditionally think the so-called so intellectual class class- classes es lose face if they engage in man man- manual manual manual ual labor But the children loved it For the first time they slid down the chutes and whirled around on onI flying Hying rings I The main idea for the project came from Mrs Grady who inter inter- interested interested interested ested Mayor Mehdi and the wife of Premier Ali in the project The premiers premier's wife turned out to paint fence posts and the mayor wielded a shovel to demon demon- demonstrate demonstrate demonstrate strate his interest |