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A BOY IN A LAND OF GIANTS, by Maurine M. Remenih
THE ASTROWORLD OF TEXAS.
CLINT HOWARD, PHOTOGRAPHER, by Joan H. Wood
STORIES
THE GOLD OF DEAD MAN'S GORGE, Part One,
by David Gordon.
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WHAT'S A BIRTHDAY ? by Mary Dana Rodriguez.
WHY THE ROBIN SANG, by Alberta C. Thornton
A HORSE FOR PATRICK O'LEARY, by Polly Gottfried
MIGHTY HUNTER, by Edith Osborn Corbett
THE BULLS OF ALTAMIRA, by Ursula Koering
ARTICLES
MY FATHER IS AN ARCHITECT,
by Myshkin LeVine as told to Marilyn Sussna.
LET'S DISCOVER AMERICA-
SAGUARO NATIONAL MONUMENT
PADDLE PRIMER, by Margaret C. Moran
VERSE
WHISTLING WIND, by M. Jean Hilke .
SONGS ABOUT UNUSUAL ANIMALS, COATIMUNDI,
by Doris Scharfenberg.
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DIZ AND LIZ, by Ted Key.
MARCH CALENDAR, Japan,
by Johanna Bilbo and Robert Jefferson
PARENT-TEACHER PAGES-
NATURAL SCIENCE IN CITY PARKS, by Eric Hass . .
THINGS TO DO AND MAKE
DOTS TO DECIPHER, by Maurie Taylor.
THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY,
by Rosalie W. Doss and Katherine Keys
IN MARCH TIME, by Lucy Hamilton.
ANDRÉ AND AMÉLIE, French Lesson, by Roberta L. Fairal
BAKE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO, recipes,
by Johanna Bilbo
TABLE-TOP WIND-TOP, by Rae Owings.
PENCIL PUZZLE, by August Weber.
PERKY PUPPET® PUZZLE PAGES
DINOSAURS, cutout, by Edward F. Cortese.
MAKE A HORNBOOK, by Rae Owings.
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ALL DIFFERENT - COLLECT ALL SIX.
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in the one frame that fits it exactly, by slipping the
tabs through the slits. Now practice pronouncing
the names of the pictured objects in French, as
André and Amélie do.
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TEFAN used to make
Sup stories for himself about little
folks and giants, and about strange
planets and spaceships. There's not a
thing unusual about that other
children like to read and dream about
the same fancies. Stefan went one
step farther. Now he is, in a way, one
of the little people living on a strange
planet; and he got there by spaceship.
Here's how he does it: Stefan plays
Barry Lockridge in ABC-TV's Land of
the Giants. For Stefan it is a boy's
dream come true. The popular series
is the story of the passengers and
crew of a space vehicle which is forced
to make an emergency landing on an
unknown planet, a land of giants
twelve times the size of earthbound
men. The giants intend to use Barry
and his friends as laboratory guinea
pigs to further their knowledge in
medicine and electronics.
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several movies and many TV shows,
including the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
With all this acting in the last ten
years, it wouldn't seem that Stefan has
had much time for school. But the
law says that, acting or no, children
must have a certain number of hours
of classwork each day. While Stefan is
doing Land of the Giants, he goes
to classes on the 20th Century Fox
lot. His teacher, Mrs. Klamp, was once
Shirley Temple's teacher.
Stefan has a hectic schedule when
he is working on a TV show. He must
be up at 5:30 or 6 o'clock in the morn-
ing in order to be on the lot and in
makeup before shooting starts. He has
a full day of acting and class sessions.
Stefan likes to play with the huge props He's
ready to climb the thread from a giant spool if
pilot Gary Conway will let him.
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Photographs ABC-TV
Trick camera work and special props
help to create the effect of small hu-
mans in gigantic danger. Part of the
fun of being Barry in Land of the
Giants is playing with the enormous
props used in the show. When Stefan
isn't needed for a scene, he sometimes
goes to the prop storage area. The
show has used a 30-foot-wide desk,
and a huge plastic hand that's as wide
as Stefan is tall. There's a safety pin
so big that the little people use it as
a grappling hook. The prop man gave
Stefan a kitchen match about the size
of a small baseball bat.
Acting is nothing new to Stefan.
When he turned thirteen recently, he
also chalked up his tenth year as an
actor. He was born in Toronto, and
began acting on TV in Canada when
he was three. Since that time, his fam-
ily has moved to New York and then
to California. Stefan has appeared in
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Flight 703's crew: Gary Conway, Heather Young,
Don Marshall. Passengers: Kurt Kasznar, De-
anna Lund, Stefan Arngrim, Don Matheson.
By the time he gets home it's dinner
time, and he spends the evening do-
ing homework and learning his lines
for the scenes to be filmed the next
day. But sometimes on Saturdays he
sleeps till noon. Both his mother and
father are in show business, and they
know that acting is hard work. So
they like him to catch up on his rest.
Stefan's father, Thor Arngrim, is an
actor and producer. His mother,
Norma Macmillan Arngrim, is an ac-
tress, writer, and recording artist. She
also does the voices for many cartoons
and television commercials. Stefan's
little sister Alison, who is six, is one
of his most devoted fans. She'd like
to act someday too. Rounding out
the Arngrim family are Rex, a Dalma-
tian, and Pork Chop, a pooch of un-
certain ancestry.
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Narrow-gauge railway carries visitors about
the Astroworld area. Each train has an
engine, tender, and four cars.
columns all menace the Little Lost
Professor.
In another section of Astroworld
is the highest ride in the world-the
Astroneedle. Little cars carry pas-
sengers three hundred feet up while
spinning them around the needle.
After chugging along on the "610
Limited", visitors in Western Junction
can watch live shows at the Crystal
Palace and at the Fast Draw Saloon.
Giant Texas cowboy boot below is really a
slide. Children climb up and enter at back,
and slide out through the toe.
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This double Ferris wheel has two arms.
While cars on one arm revolve, the other is
down so passengers can come aboard.
The Maypole, the Carousel, and the
Boot Slide are attractions in the
Children's World.
Astroworld also has restaurants
and shops to explore. It even has a
real barbershop in case that haircut
can't wait. Astroworld also has a
medicine show, a puppeteer, a ven-
triloquist, and other live shows.
Bands play throughout the day and
every day is parade day.
Red, blue, yellow, and green cars of Le Taxi
give visitors a right-hand drive in an old-
style European taxi.
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PHOTOGRAPHS-HOUSTON SPORTS ASSOCIATION
N ALPINE TOUR, a riverboat ride,
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the highest amusement ride in
the world, and much more await a
visitor to Astroworld.
Opened in June 1968, Astroworld
is a giant family amusement and en-
tertainment center in Houston, Texas.
Entrance into this Wonderful
World of Fun is across a treelined
and flower-decorated bridge.
In the Alpine Valley, a ride on the
Astroway takes a visitor one hundred
feet in the air. The Alpine Sleigh Ride
glides up to the top of a sixty-five-
foot-high artificial mountain, der
Hofheinzberg, and then rolls down
past a waterfall and through a tunnel.
A riverboat ride awaits a visitor to
Lost World where huge ants, giant
butterflies, rain showers, and toppling
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DINOSAURS
By EDWARD F. CORTESE
Glue these pages on light cardboard,
and cut out dinosaurs. Add cardboard
props at back so figures will stand.
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Newton LeVine, is an
M'architect. He is also a professor,
an archaeologist, and a city planner,
but if I put all that in the title, not
much room would be left for the pic-
ture. He has been in each of those
occupations at different times and in
different places. Right now he is
mostly an architect and city planner,
and he works in Boston.
Daddy learned how to be an archi-
tect at the University of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia. He went to graduate
school there, too, and studied city
planning. That's a good combination,
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arilyn Sussna
because now he can help to plan a
city, and he knows how the buildings
that go to make up the city should be
designed as well.
The plan of an ancient city led
Daddy into archaeology. After he
graduated from school, he took a job
with an expedition to Guatemala. His
assignment was to map the jungle ex-
cavation site of the 1100-year-old
Mayan city of Tikal.
He lived in the jungle for five
months. The only contact his group
had with the outside worl
shortwave radio beamed t
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One of the most spectacular and
unusual parks in this country is the
Saguaro National Monument near
Tucson, Arizona. It is only in this sec-
tion of the country (and one or two
remote places in California) that you
will be able to see the tall and stately
saguaro cactus. These giants of the
desert may be only a few inches tall
when they are five years old, but
they grow to be almost fifty feet tall
and sometimes live for 200 years.
Like all cacti, they are filled with
water. During the rainy season in the
desert, a large plant may absorb as
much as a ton of water through its
widespread root system and store it
in its sponge-like tissues.
The large, creamy white flower which
blooms in May and early June has
been chosen as the official flower for
the state of Arizona. It is a feeding
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YOUNG
YOUNG Clint Howard has both an
interesting career and an absorb-
ing hobby. When he isn't working in
front of a camera, he is behind one
taking pictures. Clint is a star of the
CBS television series Gentle Ben,
and an amateur photographer.
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Clint takes pictures, as do many
boys and girls, for use in school proj-
ects, to show friends, and to remind
him of parties and trips.
Of the two activities, acting came
first for Clint. He began his career as
an actor at the age of two in an episode
JACK AND JILL
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