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Back at 4. The flash point was the routine arrest, in a Negro neighborhood, of a twice-convicted Negro car thief suspected of a third offense. When the suspect broke and ran, a policeman dropped him with two shots in the hip and side. The action naturally pulled a crowd, but it was neither large nor truculent. Among the curious onlookers, however, was Carmichael. "We're tired of these racist police killing our people," he shouted. "We're going to be back at 4 o'clock and tear this place...
...mere three days to reserved-seat audiences -which ought to be enough, Executive Producer Walter Reade Jr. figures, to earn a reasonable profit on the $1,000,-000 investment. With such short exposure, says Reade, "the blue-nosed censors" will still be rubbing their eyes after the flash flood of consciousness has gone roaring...
...Flag. Inspired by the Tour de France, bike racing has long been a favorite Vietnamese avocation, and the precautions taken reflected the nation's interest. Highway 1 was swept beforehand by troops of the national police. U.S. Marine checkpoints were ordered to flash word ahead as the cyclists hove into view. When the arrangements were complete, the entrants gathered on Danang's waterfront. With the starting gun, they pumped briskly off, preceded by a jeepload of tour officials clearing puzzled drivers off the highway with a red flag and siren...
...Southeast Asian swamplands, it has long been observed that thousands of fireflies flash together, lighting up trees with the regularity of neon signs. This synchronous flashing has never been adequately explained. North American fireflies generally light individually or sometimes in uncoordinated group flashing. Writing in Nature, Zoologist John Buck and his wife believe that the Asian male fireflies' synchronous flashing is actually a photic call that lures females to the trees for mass mating. Because the Asian undergrowth is so dense, the male insects use rhythmic beaconing in order to shine through and be seen by the females...
...Wrong Box. In a proper English drawing room at the turn of the century, two pulsating Victorian lovers come face to face, and old-style title cards flash a legend upon the screen: Alone with Her at Last-in a Room Full of Eggs. The eggs are part of a collection belonging to the young lady's cousin. The lovers are Michael Caine, a nincompoop medical student bursting with latent virility, and Nanette Newman, a delectable Victorian miss sustained largely by fantasies about the 300 helpless girls molested each year in London. He, confronted by the fleshly reality...