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Lousy Dancers. The frustrations of being black are shadowed with bitterness as well as violence. A constant TV watcher, the five-year-old son of a black Chicago professional man recently asked: "Daddy, we're not black, are we?" When asked why, he said: "When you're black, the police will shoot you." The boy does not want too many black children living near him "because they do bad things." He has decided, he says, that he is brown...
...Laugh-In. The choppiness of the action could be excused as it precludes a continuous plot-line, which is also absent in the book. But the minimal transitions that are attempted lack the barest suggestion of originality. It just so happens, for instance, that Grand is an avid TV-watcher, and his propensity to change channels lets Southern smuggle in random bits about a disguised puma that eats its competition at a silk-stocking New York dog show and two gnarled heavyweight contenders who prance to the center of the ring, embrace, and writhe down to the canvas moaning passionately...
Perverse Habit. Actually, solar eclipses are fairly common. As many as five can occur in a single year, although they invariably last no more than a few minutes and often frustrate astronomers by what Veteran Eclipse Watcher Donald H. Menzel of Harvard calls their "perverse habit of hitting desolate regions." Because of its favorable viewing path and timing-near the peak of the sun's eleven-year sunspot cycle-the March 7 eclipse is being eagerly awaited by astronomers...
...injury, medical authorities suggest that observers who look directly at an eclipse should do so only through at least two fully exposed photographic negatives that have been developed to maximum density. Sunglasses, welders' goggles or smoked glass do not provide adequate protection. To be completely safe, the eclipse watcher should turn his back to the sun and hold up a card with a pinhole. The sun's rays will be focused by the hole and projected as a sharp, safe solar image on any white surface a short distance away...
...Vogel did them all one better. In 1966 he helped bring back to the United States one slim, suave Cantonese-who happened to be a China watcher's dream. This was Edward Chung-man Ch'an, a living, breathing former member of the Chinese Communist Party who had worked in the Canton area from 1950 until his escape...