Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desert, mountain and valley. But the city is only the core of a vast, amoeba-like mass that makes up the Los Angeles metropolitan area, a 5,000-sq. mi. tract that includes Los Angeles County (pop. 7,020,000) and such neighboring cities as Long Beach and San Bernardino. Though Los Angeles proper ranks third in population among U.S. cities (after New York and Chicago), Greater Los Angeles is already the second-most-populous metropolis in the U.S., is almost sure to surpass New York by 1975. Last week alone, some 5,000 people moved into the area...
...took Darrell Tarver, a 28-year-old Air Force veteran and senior at San Francisco State College, to bring the joys of San Gregorio to a wider public. With a group of friends, he formed the "Committee for Free Beaches," circularized the campuses of San Francisco and Berkeley, and soon more than 500 nudists each Sunday were wending their way to San Gregorio. "The greatest beach in the world," said one stark-naked Foothill Junior College student, happily surveying the scene. "This is the best incentive I have to stay slim," cried a Botticellian Berkeley coed as she raced into...
Human Chains. But with crowds, the idyl became chaotic. Bands of enthusiastic gawkers appeared, manning spyglasses from behind the bushes; planes from nearby Half Moon Bay Airport began buzzing the beach. Then one outraged parent claimed that his 14-year-old daughter had been persuaded to disrobe in public while visiting San Gregorio with another family. The father tried to press charges, but the county district attorney's office ruled that the incident constituted neither lewd nor obscene conduct, and the case never made it to court. Nonetheless, the publicity put San Gregorio...
With reporters prowling the area, Dairy Farmer Walter Bridge, who owns one of the two primitive roads leading to the beach, closed the path when newspapers publicized the fact that he was charging $1 for parking. That left only one access road through the jointly owned property of two avowed anti-nudists, and last week this too was closed with an armed guard to bar the way. But nothing seemed to daunt the enthusiastic nudists, who continued arriving wave on wave. Some made their way around the southern promontory at low tide; others formed human chains down the dangerous cliffside...
...federal, state and local governments lost some $45 million in tax revenue. The tourist indus try, expecting one of its busiest and most profitable years, was hit even harder than the airlines, lost an estimated $1.6 billion. Occupancy in leading Puerto Rico hotels fell 25% below normal; some Miami Beach hotels, shops and restaurants were half empty. American Express reported a sharp drop in travel bookings for the fall and winter. California flower growers, source of a quarter of the nation's floral supply, and dependent on air freight to deliver their fragile crop, lost...