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Atlantic City on $20and All the CashYou Can CarryNever been to Las Vegas? W ei I, now you have an opportunity to gamblein a glamorous casino without travelling to the Nevada resort. The 600Baltic Block Association is sponsoring a day%u2019s excursion to Atlantic City.In addition to the beach and the Boardwalk, Atlantic City, of course, nowhas casino gambling. Tickets for the trip are $20 for the bus, which willdepart from the 600 block on Baltic St. at 6:30 a.m ., August 26. A day offun is expected for all. (Just be careful not to bring too much money withyou!) Contact S. Clayton, 783-0016, fortickets.Excursion to Atlantic C ity, August 26. $20, call 7834018.Kane Street FairAugust is a month for block parties and the Kane Street Association isgetting theirs in too. The Kane Street Block Party, to be held August 5,will run on Kane Street from Court to the Piers, and the street will beclosed to traffic.Everything that insures a great party will be there: sports, with races,volleyball, and skateboard competitions; pleasure, with lots of good foodand wine; and culture, with live music and the Carroll Dance Theaterpresenting their play %u201c Mother Nature%u2019 %u2019 at 4:30p.m .Get in on the fun this Saturday. Everyone%u2019s going to come down andraise Kane!Kane Street Party, from Court to the Piers. A ll day, August 5.The Carroll Dance Theater, who will be performing theirantilitter musical %u201c Mother Nature%u201d at two block parties inDowntown Brooklyn.Partying InternationallyWHAT???? You haven%u2019t been to a block party this summer!!! W ell,here%u2019s your chance to catch one, and an unusual type at that. The gala is tobe held at Cheever Place on Saturday, August 5. Yes, Cheever Race willbe transformed from an ordinary street in Cobbie H ill, to a street of allnations, displaying flags of all its residents%u2019 native countries. It will be asort of %u201c United Nations%u2019%u2019 alia Cobble Hill street festival, includinggoodies from countries all over the world, a flea market, children's gamesand contests, craft booths and much, much more. There will be abarbeque lunch from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m ., and street entertainment from1 p.m. to 6 p.m. The wide range of entertainment will feature localmusicians, a children%u2019s art exhibit, and everybody%u2019s favorite, The CarrollDance Theater, performing their own musical production of %u201c MotherNature. %u2019 %u2019 And for you dancers out there, the dance band %u2018 %u2018Flying Colors%u2019 %u2019will keep your feet hopping from 8 p.m . to midnight. If you%u2019re a gamblerthe Block Party hasn%u2019t forgotten you because it will have its share ofraffles: a drawing for a color T.V . set, a gift certificate, and a lot of othertitillating treats. There will even be a movie, %u201c Bird of Paradise,%u2019%u2019 to beshown free at the corner of DeGraw and Cheever at 8:30, but it%u2019s B.Y.O.C.(bring your own chair!).For further information, call Rachel Haskell (days) at 875-2311. So.arrlvaderci, sionare, adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen. In other words,see you at the fair!Cheever Place Stock Party, August 5. Runs all day.Looking at HistoryVia Prospect ParkW hat%u2019s in a park? According to Sidney Horenstein, in Prospect Park,%u201cW e can read the record of a billion years of earth%u2019s history.%u201d Dr.Horenstein, a geologist from the American Museum of Natural Historywho recently led some 200 people in a successful search for fossils in thebuilding stones of Manhattan skyscrapers, will lead a geological tourthrough Prospect Park.The tour, which will be sponsored by the Prospect Park EnvironmentalCenter, will lookinto the things that are missing from the landscape, suchas Brooklyn%u2019s bedrock, which lies several hundred feet beneath thepresent surface. Inaddition, those whogoon the tour will see present-dayprocesses of weathering, erosion, filling in of the lakes, etc.The tour is one of the great bargai ns this summer for anyone looki ng toenjoy while learning, and a $1 donation to the Prospect ParkEnvironmental Center is the total cost. The tour meets next Saturday,August 5,11 a.m . at the Litchfield Villa at Prospect Park West at FifthStreet. Reservations aren%u2019t necessary, and the raindate is August 6. Formore information, call MA2-7686. It%u2019s a guaranteed interesting look atbelow-the-surface Brooklyn.Prospect Park Environmental Center%u2019s tour of geological history ofProspect Park, August 5,11 a.m ., meet at the Litchfield Villa, ProspectPark West at 5th Street. $1. MA2-7686.iKnow New York NowNew Yorkers seem to think they know everything about their city, but how could they? New York contains too many things that too few people know about. With this in mind, the Municipal Art Society and the Department of Cultural Affairs are sponsoring a series of six walking tours designed to explore the city%u2019s architecture, history, culture, and future planning possibilities. These tours are not the usual type, designed for tourists, but were planned specifically with the New Yorker .in mind.On Sunday, Aug. 6th, three tours are offered. One tour, %u2018Canyons of Stone, Cliffs of Glass,%u201d explores the financial district, the Battery, and the City%u2019s first and most recent skyscrapers, it wiii include Revolutionary War sites, the location of the nation%u2019s first White House, and Trinity Church. The second tour, %u201c Rebirth of Times Square,%u201d will explore the theatre district, looking at its past, present, and future. The third tour, %u201c The Brooklyn Promenade,%u201d will explore Brooklyn Heights, including the .bustling shops on Montague Street as well as its historical brownstones and churches.All tours begin at 2 p.m. and are cancelled in the event of rain. The charge is $3 per person, $1.50 for Municipal Art Society members. %u201c Canyons of Stone, Cliffs of Glass%u201d departs from the Customs House at Bowling Green, %u201c Rebirth of Times Square%u201d from the northwest corner of Sixth Avenue and 44th Street, and %u201c The Brooklyn Promenade%u201d from in front of the Long Island Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street. Tour guides can be identified by their Municipal Art Society T-shirts. For information on other Sunday tours and a free brochure, call 586-4763. So, go out and become a New York expert!Walking tours of New York City. August 6 ,2 p.m . $3 & $1.50.586-4763.Getting Tots Wet RightSwimming, or so scientists say, is a natural instinct that all mammalsare born with. Why is it, then, that most humans don%u2019t learn to take on thewater until they%u2019ve reached adolescence? Some never learn the art ofswimming at a ll! To help get an early start on this (and I mean early!) theProspect Park YM C A at Ninth Street and Sixth Avenue is offering severalInfant Swim classes. One (they call it W ater Babies) is open to tykes sixmonths to two years old. The others are for children 2 to 4 years and 4 to 6years old.%u201cThe children%u2019s response all depends on the willingness of themother,%u201d said the coordinator of the course, pointing out that all mothersattend their children during the classes. The sessions, which only lastabout half-an-hour to 45 minutes, start cut with such essentials as gettingthe kids used to the feel of being submerged in water. Then, through theinstinct of emulation, the children copy their mothers%u2019 movements andlearn to blow bubbles, to stroke and to kick. Because most bodies aren%u2019tstrong enough to handle the strain of swimming, most kids don%u2019t learn totake out on their own till age three, but one of the Y %u2019s students swam aquarter of a mile when she was four.We don%u2019t know if Spitz got his start this way, but Junior can, if you call and see about the classes that will be taking place in September. Registration is during the last two weeks of August. Or if you really hurry, you might be able to get in on the early August sessions. But enrollment is limited to 10 kids nor r.lass sn there%u2019s nn time to lose. Call the Y at 768-7100. Diana Nyad, watch out for the competition.Infant Swim at Prospect Park YM CA. Call 768-7100for details.Page 12, THE PHOENIX, August 3,1978