.pdf placed appears all black

I'm not sure if this is an inDesign problem or an Adobe Acrobat Pro problem.  I'm attempting to crop bits of a .pdf and place them into inDesign (revising an advertisement).  One copied section appears perfectly, another portion comes across as solid black.  What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
Writerpamela

How do they print?
I've had pdf's from a Copier/Scanner wack out at various zoom levels for no good reason.
What was the pdf's creation as far as you can determine from it's Document Properties?

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