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Today, California newspapers offer frequent columns of surf news. Magazines such as Surfer and Surfing Illustrated have appeared on the stands. Surf songs keep deejays spinning even in Chicago, which is relatively surfless. And from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border, when the word goes out that "surf's up!" whole families go streaming toward the handiest stretch of Pacific shore. "Ninety percent are beginners," broods Bill Cooper, executive secretary of the U.S. Surfing Association. "Half of them give it up in a year or two, but then there are more-and the real danger of surfing...
True to a tradition among Broadway musicals, No Strings has virtually no plot. But it does have words and music by Richard Rodgers, fine performances by Howard Keel and Barbara McNair in the lead roles, and a uniquely simple set designed by David Hays; these things are more than enough consolation for the show's plotlessness...
...York one, thanks mostly to the new lead players. The male lead switched from Richard Kiley to Howard Keel, seasoned star of Oklahoma and Carousel, and the female lead, played by Diahann Carroll in the New York version, went to the equally beautiful but more bouyant Barbara McNair...
Samuel Taylor's rather sketchy book tells the story of David Jordon, a writer from "the rock-bound coast of Maine" and his love affair with Barbara Woodruff, the highest paid fashion model in Paris, and incidentally a Negro. David was once at the top of his profession (he had won a Pulitzer Prize for his last book eight years previously) and Barbara is at the top of hers. Europe has made Barbara what she is--in America she was just a poor girl from Harlem and George Washington High--but it has also drained David of his creative energy...
...Britain's Nature, William D. Clarke of General Motors Defense Research Laboratories, Santa Barbara, explains a likely purpose of the photophores. The creatures that carry the belly searchlights, he says, live at ocean depths (less than 3,000 ft.) where sunlight barely penetrates. These waters are the hunting ground of fish with eyes that point permanently upward. What they normally see is the last faint trace of sunlight, which looks like a dim blue ceiling. When they see a dark and edible-looking object silhouetted vaguely against the ceiling above, they dart up and grab...