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...judge responded with a 20-page report explaining his action, but the city's most popular disc jockey told his audience: "Shintaku can take that report and shove it up his-nose." Then came news that Judge Shintaku had been found by relatives battered and dazed at his beachfront cottage. After doctors performed brain surgery for three hours and tended to Shintaku's broken collarbone, they predicted that he would be sidelined for a year...
...frustrated glances, they succeed parodying the struggle for personal fulfillment after the fall from innocence. Of the other actors, only Gene Hackman merits particular mention for his subdued portrayal of indefatigable Lex Luthor, the man who for his part in the subjugation of the world "only wants a little beachfront property--the continent of Australia...
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau has long pursued a strongly nationalist policy that tried to lower the proportion of foreign ownership of sensitive economic areas. But, so far, the American reaction to the Canadian invasion has been warm. In the mile-square beachfront community of Surfside, Fla., near affluent Bal Harbour, Canadian businessmen have almost finished two high-rise condominiums, valued at $46 million. Next month the town will hold its annual "Salute to Canada" week...
WHEN THE UNIVERSITY was founded in the 1630s, the town of Salem offered hundreds of beachfront acres for a campus. Harvard's founders, who liked the atmosphere of this city, chose instead to settle in Cambridge. In a few years, the University may wish it had built on sand...
...south of Los Angeles, 9-ft. waves caused a section of the Pacific Coast Highway to collapse, isolating the wealthy beachfront town of Malibu. Because of a power failure, the Tapia Treatment Plant shut down, causing 15,000 gal. per min. of raw sewage to flow down Malibu Creek to the ocean and forcing officials to close beaches along 25 miles of shore, as far south as Marina Del Rey. In Redondo Beach, harbor officials scuttled the Lady Alexandra, a 225-ft. ship converted into a restaurant and disco. Storm-whipped waves had turned the ship on its side...