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...THIS BEAR!, by Bernice Myers (Four Winds Press; $3.50). Dressed in his furry hat and coat, little Herman goes off to visit his Aunt Gert. He looks just like a bear, and that is just what a passing bear thinks he is. Herman has a terrible time trying to persuade the bears that he is really a boy. He sings and dances and ties his shoelaces, but Papa Bear only says, "See what happens when a bear has a chance to go to the big city and learn a trade...
...Bourget airport, his luck held and he managed to get the last Hertz car available. Then, like his colleagues fanning out from Paris to Lyon to Marseille, Gooding went out to get his first taste of tear gas and to learn that a press brassard on a coat sleeve would be an open invitation to a mauling from the police...
...stones to others who were building a barricade. On the Boulevard St. Michel, a student sat atop the barricade, casually ignoring the danger. Police lobbed grenades. Another student dropped in pain. Still another was hit in the face. On the Left Bank, a medical student in blood-smeared white coat pleaded with the demonstrators. "For God's sake, stop it. You'll all be massacred. The hospitals can't take any more...
Moreover, the Negro in the ghetto is showing a declining gratitude for visitations by white missionaries who sign up for temporary duty only, and who may be more interested in salving their own consciences than in solving a problem that cannot be cured by a coat of paint. The reception given New York's beautifying task force was generally cordial, but there were a few notable exceptions. "Why clean outside?" asked one resident. "All the badness is inside, and that will still be there tomorrow...
...last-minute fill-in for a vacant slot at a Johannesburg theatre, play the show as if they had never seen it before. Equally enthusiastic is Kendrew Lascelles, the chief comic, who also devised some of the choreography. Mr. Lascelles, periodically strolling on stage wearing a floor-length black coat and carrying a tuba that he cannot play, looks like a banana waiting to be peeled. He also has a way of bunching up his entire torso into his breast, a trick he's likely to pull anytime, anywhere, and for no rational reason...