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Page 20 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, May 5,1977 People and what they are saying ‘Roots’ of black humor She likes to be alone “Rootsmania” keeps on spreading. Comedian Red Foxx, late of “Sanford and Son, is assembling for June release “The Red Foxx En cyclopedia of Black Humor," with an assist from Norma Miller, who has worked with the comic for many years. The encyclopedia will search out the roots of black humor in America — from its beginnings among the plantation slaves, through the early minstrel shows and on through today’s televi sion. Foxx and Miller will also document the effects of black humor on non-black humorists and on the language Tell kids the truth “Let’s make sex a household word," says Dr. Sol Gordon, sex educator and author. “Whether we like it or not, parents are the sex educators of their kids, so let’s do the job well." Planned Parenthood statistics show that last year over one million 15 to 19- year-old girls — and another 30,000 under age 15 — became pregnant, many because they didn’t unders tand the responsibilities of intercourse and were ig norant of proper birth con trol methods. 41 Bk 1 '/ ■■■■■■■■■■l Biggest fear WOODY ALLEN says his biggest fear is that “I’ll write a mawkish and embarrassing soap opera and not know it.” His newest film, “Annie Hall," which he also directed, is more somber than his previous films. But if he set out to make a truly serious movie, says Allen in an interview in Esquire, it would be “Serious, dead serious. Not middle serious, like Truffaut, but very heavy stuff.” NEA photo by D L Drake Is America ready? "The world will see a Richard Nixon more confi dent than ever — at the peak of his powers," claims inter viewer David Frost of his dialogue with the former President to be aired in four parts in May. Frost told US magazine “I think the American people will end up believing Nixon . . . There are so many other areas, subjects other than Watergate, and he’s got so much to reveal, so much he knows and so much he’s saying. “This is probably Nixon's last chance to put across his version of events.” Cooper’s still running £ r y - . BBBHI BHHHs QfeWO Dr. Kenneth Cooper 'zzz**' Redd Foxx Dr. Gordon says, in an ar ticle in Family Circle, that although there is no right age for children to be told about sex, they are never too young to get honest answers to their questions. "It’s useless to pretend that if we’re careful not to say anything about it, then children won’t notice that sex exists,” he believes. Sex educators advise parents to treat the subject of sex as something natural, and that trust and openness be foremost in dealing with children’s questions. if Uy ji * JjF Richard Nixon It has been nine years since Dr. Kenneth Cooper's bestseller, “Aerobics,” started America jogging. To day, Cooper heads the successful Aerobics Activity Center in Dallas, where the members recently logged their millionth mile. The center serves as a coun try club for joggers. Cooper also heads a research clinic there which gives stress tests and prescribes exercise programs for 10,000 patients per year. The waiting list for examinations is six months long. Representatives from at least 50 communities have ap proached Dr. Cooper to es tablish satellite centers, but so far he has refused. Dr. Cooper, who developed his aerobics program when he was an Air Force medical of ficer working for NASA, claims that 10 million Americans now jog. He himself has run nearly 16,000 miles since 1960. Although he preaches temperance in physical fitness, Cooper twice ran in the Boston Marathon when he was studying at Harvard Medical School. “When I was seven years old I decided to dedicate my life to selling vacuum cleaners because my father had made a big success as head of sales for a company that manufactured them," says Dr. Sandra Brown, one of six women millionares featured in the May issue of Redbook magazine. “When I told my father about my great decision he said, ‘We don’t hire women.’ ” Dr. Brown is now founder and president of Publishers' | SIGMAN BUICK Mn p 1303 W. Taylor Street, Sales Office Hrs. Mon.-Fri. 8:30-8:30, Sat. 8:30-5:00 11 DP ILES I ER UALLON Service Dept. Mon.-Fri. 8:00-6:00, Phone 228-2700, Service Dept. 228-7700 IvIILES I ER UALLON ® M,l« Per Gallon Luxury HEADQUARTERS LuXUry _ The 1977 Buick model line-up. — Regal Coupe I 22 M.P.G. (Highway Driving) GsiS“GllZzloT T<lX? 25 M.P.G . (Highway V 6 Engine) I Try Full-Size Buick 20 M.P.G. (Highway V 8 Engine) I Carter's Proposed Crackdown. Bl 22 M.P.G. (Highway Driving) R TurnS Even T ° day Would Penalize Few Cars 25 M.P.G. (Highway Vt Engine) BY CHARLES B. CAMP ftf) II n n Steff Reporter of the wall street journal /U Ivl. I. U. (Highway V 8 Engine) DETROlT—Suppose you’re in the market for a I LeSabre Cuslont Sedan car p res ident Carter’s scheme to s&TTT'' I am ■■ ft ft tax the sale of so-called gas guzzlers and give 25 ffl.P.ll. (Highway Driving - 6 Cyl. Eng.) £?“ ta ft You could stuff yourself, your spouse, two kids Skylark SeST /J Mr 11 (Highway Driving -V8 Eng.) and dog into a Chevrolet Chevette minicar and m AU HI.I nU. * 6 J 6 » pocket a rebate you be a bit less 9R MP P (Hiohwav) patriotic, splurge on a larger Ford Granada com- All Ivlal pact and still get $225 back. Then again, you could Just buy a full-sized Buick LeSabre sedan and take I the consequence. What would that be? A S9O rebate. If you’re surprised that even a big Buick could i si c. wa st on(2 <>r 3 seat) qualify for a rebate instead of a stiff tax, you’ve Coupe _ . m m probably got lots of company. For in the swirl of 11 fl A /] M r 11 (Highway Driving) publicity and discussion surrounding President < I M Pl] (Highway) A I I’lwl »M» o J bl Carter’s proposed crackdown on energy-wasting »U t autos, an important fact has been largely obscured: The classic American “gas guzzler” is already on the way out. President Carter is urging a miximum tax of $450 , u, next year on the sale of new cars rated at 12 miles century per gallon or less, for example, but such new cars 4ft Bl fl ft .... . probably will be hard to find. Only a few 1977 models OC 11 DI- l » Ig Mbl bMb (Highway) are that bad. And there certainly won’t be any HI.I «Ua (Highway Driving) around 1985 to suffer the ultimate $2,500 gas-guzzler *■■■«.> A MAh Ah MaßVDtfhJh tax reserved for them. It is unlikely there will even Aclr E/>r* 93 NEW GAS SAVERS be any 15 m.p.g. jobs in 1985, and you might even MSK FUf, IwlhWW have to search to find a 1985 model car with mileage DONNIE WILSON MARK LUKE TO CHOOSE FROM L as low as 20 miles per gallon, | LAN | ER SHIVERS HOMER SIGMAN MELVIN LESTER MB 1 AB ■ 881 HAMP RUSSELL DEMO SALE —= ■■ B W * ■■ ■■ MELVIN WALDROP UNBELIEVABLE SAVINGS "ON THE SPOT BANK FINANCING" 2 Electra Limiteds 1 Century Special 4 Riviera's 1 Century Station Wagon 2 Century (2 Doors) 2 Regals WE WILL GIVE "MAKE US AN OFFER" * E * lu 6m WHATEVER „ , , _ . „ WHATEVER IT TAKES Biggest Litt'e Dealer In Georgia FREE 23 CHANNEL C.B. Radio I With The Purchase Os Any Demo In Stock Investors, Inc., a firm which refinances businesses that have gone bankrupt, and which earns several million dollars in annual revenue. Her advice for women in terested in a career in business: "You have to want to in the first place, and you need courage and energy. Most important, you must be the kind of person who can always regenerate yourself, make yourself happy and thrive on being alone.” No belly laughs Phil Foster, a native of Brooklyn who’s earned a liv ing as a comedian since he was 10, doesn’t think televi sion is all that funny. Phil currently plays the harassed father of Laverne on ABC-TV’s "Laverne and Shirley.” In his opinion, television has eliminated the belly laugh . . . “The TV laugh comes from under your nose to above your chin. You get a nice laugh from your teeth.” (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN I Phil Foster Grandparents’ rights Grandparents denied visitation privileges to children of divorced parents are learning that they have rights, too. A recent Wiscon sin ruling permits grand parents to petition for, and be granted, visitation privileges based on the child’s need for closer fami ly contact. Lee Geronime, an at torney who was instrumen tal in bringing about the Wisconsin ruling, says that since each state has its own standard for deciding the issue, most grandparents will have to petition the court for the legal right to visit their grandchildren. In an article in McCall’s magazine, he states: “If more grandparents do this, other states may be per suaded to follow Wisconsin’s lead and protect not only the rights of grandparents, but the rights of children not to be cut off from their own past.”
