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Shoveling Sand. Mostly, the case underlines the fact that in Watts today a white policeman still feels compelled to approach a Negro's car with a leveled gun. Though federal agencies have allotted it $16 million since the riots -and only last week announced a $2,700,000 grant to break its isolation with better bus service-so far, said a federal official, it has done little more than "shovel sand against the tide...
...handicapped children. The boxy gadget resembles an ungainly bug; yet it is capable of sophisticated locomotion. It can travel forward or backward, turn in its own length, climb steps, a 30° slope and an 8-in. curb, cross rough fields, and literally get a toehold in sand or muddy ground that usually bogs down a wheeled vehicle...
...made of granite paving stones, over which kids clamber, shrieking as they go. Last week children were lining up to crawl into the stone igloo; once inside, they scrambled up a ladder through a hole in the top and, with a whoop, scooted down a slide kerplunk into a sand...
...play area is a progression of delights. From the sand pit, wood-block stepping stones lead hippety-hop to a tree house, added at Mrs. Astor's special request. Next comes a child-size maze made of rough concrete emblazoned with abstract symbols painted in bright primary colors. "It was all planned," says Friedberg, "as a continuous play experience, rather than a collection of static objects attached to an asphalt base...
...dunes and dry lakes of California's Mojave Desert are spawning a new set of recreational hobbies. Dune buggies churn up sand cliffs, sand boats sail across the flats at 60 m.p.h., and now the latest contraptions, gyrocopters, have arrived. They are homemade, one-seater helicopters barely 8 ft. long, and the closest thing to a flying chair yet made by man. "You're all by yourself," enthuses Pomona Banker Gus Styias. "The wind whirls by your ears, and you can often change direction by simply moving your body. You're really flying by the seat...