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...main door on Pennsylvania Avenue, police helped employees struggle over and through a group of about 300 demonstrators who formed a "human carpet" five people deep...
While others handed out leaflets at the Internal Revenue Service and continued to visit congressmen and senators, the draft building demonstratorslay face down in front of the main entrance, forming what they termed a "carpet of bodies" to symbolize war dead and telling arriving employees they could enter only by walking over them. Most of those arrested were charged on misdemeanor counts of obstructing a public building...
When children walk on it, the orange carpet whines, wheezes, pipes and trills. When they shout, snap their fingers or stamp their feet, the multihued kaleidoscopic pattern projected on the wall changes its shape and color. The carpet and kaleidoscope are only two of 112 remarkable toys included in an audience-participation show that is about to tour England after drawing an enthusiastic response from handicapped children in London. The unique exhibition was organized by Roger Haydon, an industrial designer, and Jim Sandhu, a medically trained lecturer on problems of the handicapped. It was designed to demonstrate how blind, autistic...
...remedy the situation, Haydon and Sandhu propose the use of toys to lure handicapped children into more normal activity. The "talking" carpet helps blind children to turn outside themselves for stimulation. So does the "buzz bubble," a plastic dome covered with electrodes that produce, on touch, sounds ranging from a low hum to a high whistle. The blind are also psychologically stimulated by the "tactile board," actually a big box with 35 compartments behind sliding doors that are finished in textured materials-sticks, beads, sandpaper, glass and felt. Tucking things away in the cubbyholes, blind children experience the thrill...
...furnished his living room with two dozen 1-ft. by 2-ft. urethane blocks, lit it with two strings of naked light bulbs, and mirrored two opposite walls to reflect blocks and bulbs receding into infinity. Cashen sits, sleeps and eats on them. The unmirrored walls are white, carpet and cubes charcoal gray. "The lack of color," says Cashen, "makes people more important because they add color...