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Seven buses brought Black people from townships 10 miles north of Port Elizabeth. Many Black youths chanted and danced around the beach, some carried banners and placards. Whites paid them little attention and mixed freely on the sand and in the water...
...This mass, non-racial picnic reminds us who we are, that we are God's family. It is human selfishness and greed that makes beaches for whites only," the Rev. David Vika of the interdenominational Ministers Association said at a prayer service after the sign was posted in the sand...
...None of them will ever have sand kicked in their faces again over a point of historical fact," said Ozment...
Gambling may have brought to Atlantic City a Pompeian profusion of statues, but the city's long-standing sense of carnival still flourishes. The casino boutiques may sell Gucci leather, but the Boardwalk is a bazaar of plastic beads, mugs shaped like women's breasts, and baby sand sharks in glass jars. When Las Vegas was nothing but a jukebox in the desert, Atlantic City had clam-eating tournaments and midget boxing matches; today one of the Boardwalk's main attractions is Celestine Tate, a disabled woman who lies on a stretcher like a beached mermaid and plays a Casio...
...called volleyball, there are some signal differences between the seaside sport and the amateur game played in schools and in the Olympics. Regular volleyball employs six players a side on a hard-surface court, while beach teams consist of only two usually bare-foot acrobats who charge through the sand to get to the ball, giving the game the flavor of balletic misdemeanor. The ball used on the beach is somewhat heavier than the indoor one, mainly to counteract the effects of sea breezes. The object of both games is to make the ball hit the floor -- or sand...