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Down below on the beach the eyebrows or commas were gone, the two dogs had gone elsewhere to frolic...
...California's Death Valley dried up 25,000 years ago, the desert pupfish somehow endured in the few remaining hot springs and saline creeks. Even now these tiny (2½-in-long) evolutionary freaks can tolerate water six times more salty than the ocean's. They frolic in water with temperatures up to 112°; in freezing water they simply hibernate. According to Cry California magazine, the economically useless pupfish will soon test man's reverence for life. Spring Meadows Inc., a Nevada farming company, plans to start pumping ground water to irrigate its Death Valley lands...
...water. Its 75 exhibits represent the full range of environments-fresh and salt, from arctic to tropic. Most of the ground floor is occupied by a large freshwater pool, swarming with such fish as gars, carps, catfish and sturgeons. It also contains an open enclave where several otters frolic in and out of the water. A few steps away are the first of 70 small tanks containing such varied and intriguing species as the colorful little clownfish, the horned cowfish and the ferocious piranha. Appropriately, the back panels of these tanks are curved since the fish swim in circular paths...
Aesthetically, they look like something Grandfather wouldn't wear to a senior citizens' frolic. But when you're a young guy trying to get along with the Establishment, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And the hard truth of the matter is, Establishment standards specify short hair...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The now-classic Beatles frolic through their now-classic first film, A Hard Day's Night...