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Beach Party is an anthropological documentary with songs. Robert Cummings, in ambush behind a wind-Schwepped beard, is gathering material for a book on teen-age sex play. Just outside his window at Balboa Beach, the puberty rites and other coming-of-age-in-California shenanigans of a tribe of overripe adolescents are in full cry, and Cummings' telescope and electronic eavesdropping rig provide him with an eye-opening earful...
...fever similar to those already known from Manchuria, Korea, India and Argentina. But was the responsible virus the same as any of those from other lands? And what animal or insect transmitted the virus to its human victims? Bolivia asked the internationally sponsored Middle America Research Unit, based in Balboa with Arizona-born Dr. Henry K. Beye as its head, to mobilize its forces for a jungle...
...those game enough to plow through it, Notes also offers some less harrowing dividends. During the Panama campaign, the wanderer reports, "Balboa's dog received the pay of a crossbowman." A Christian named Bohemund "sent to the Greek emperor a cargo of thumbs and noses." In the case of suspected witches or sorcerers, the Devil's mark "will be found under the lip or upon the fundament, if the suspect be a man. Where women are concerned one should meticulously examine the breasts and pudenda...
Brief Muddle. Will Pasadena's teenagers, who congest the sands of nearby Balboa like mating seals, detach themselves from the herd and grow up to be men and women? It seems unlikely. Only death, like poverty or God, an unmentionable fact of life, offers Decker a vision of life in its grave reality. He flunks a child-watching chore, and his little cousin Buddy dies a Californian death by surfboard. This muddles him for a time, but we are given to understand he will soon settle down to life with the other seals. One of his friends, however...
...sales in other world markets. Since 1957, U.S. exports of tinplate have been slashed from 721,000 tons to 422,000 tons last year. Right in the U.S.'s backyard, a German consortium recently walked off with the $10.8 million contract to supply steel for the mile-long Balboa Bridge in Panama. Since every emerging nation wants its own steel mill as a status symbol, the competition for foreign markets is bound to get increasingly bitter. The Europeans, and the burgeoning Japanese steelmakers, can be expected to underbid their higher-cost U.S. rivals more and more...