Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same, but somehow it has lost that old magic-at least to the cops out in Santa Monica, Calif. In the days when Peter Lawford was married to Pat Kennedy, the local police were only too happy to let a helicopter plop down on the public beach by his ocean-front home and whisk him off. Pat has divorced him now, and everything's changed. "Peter who?" asked the captain on duty when Los Angeles Air Taxi Service made its 28th routine request for landing permission. Request denied. Lawford ordered the copter to pick him up anyway. Next...
...that we can't resist!" So saying, the management of the London Symphony canceled 20 recording sessions, five concerts, refused an invitation to the Athens Festival and, with the abandon of undergrads leaving for spring vacation, bundled the orchestra off to that big sandbox in the sun, Daytona Beach, Fla. They are the attraction at the first Florida International Music Festival, by far the most culturally ambitious festival in the Southeast...
...first European orchestra to settle in a U.S. city for such an extended engagement. When they arrived two weeks ago-96 musicians, 43 wives and 36 children-they were met by a caravan of 40 cars and treated to a wee-hour spin across Daytona's famed beach. In the days since, it has been one continuous round of sun and surf-and great music...
...with $170,000 raised by the community, was conceived as a "cultural counterattack" on the "sex, suds and sand reputation" of Daytona, and such things take time. Says Festival Director Tippen Davidson: "Something was needed to round out our tourist image-not just naked girls being bounced on a beach blanket...
...showered the musicians with champagne parties, shrimp boils at the yacht club, and enough pralines, hush puppies and fried pompano to fuel Her Majesty's navy. Last week, for those musicians who could tear themselves away from golf, water-skiing and deep-sea fishing, there was a lavish beach party with barbecued chicken, baked beans and 60 gallons of sangría, a bubbly mixture of wine, orange juice and club soda, which was ladled out of a plastic garbage...