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...will return after an absence ot 19 months, but not. for the moment, to a commercial network. An amateur astronomer and all-round science nut, he is the latest prize acquisition of National Educational Television, conducting a series called Exploring the Universe and managing the difficult feat of being entertaining without offending his subject. He is also pedagogical without offense to his audience. He explains science to adults, telling most of them what their children already know...
...MEANEST SQUIRREL I EVER MET, by Gene Zion, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham (Scribners ; $3), is a shy warning that there are mean squirrels in the forest too. Hero Squirrel has all his nuts stolen by M. O. (for Mean Old) Squirrel, who tries to sell them at the Squirrel Cafe, but is politely scolded, reforms and, in the end, teaches the little squirrels how to play ice hockey with a hazel nut...
...people of Babylon laughed and said unto Argaman the prophet: "What are you, a nut or something?" And they played the music louder...
...Other names for the puncture weed: goat-head, Mexican sandburr, ground burr nut...
...Great balls of betel nut," roars Ives as he looks deep into the drawing-room eyes of the new arrival, "they've sent me a totok" which is Dutch slang for greenhorn. Straightaway, Ives saves scene after scene of the picture by stealing it. Guzzling what he calls P.G. (pure gin) from a half-gallon tin, charging and trumpeting like a white war elephant in a Panama suit, Ives produces his gutsiest acting triumph since Big Daddy...