Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sunday, Aug. 16, 5 a.m. The faithful arrived on the shores of the Atlantic. At Sagaponack Beach on Long Island, N.Y., they spread their blankets, then sat down, crossed their legs, closed their eyes, lifted palms upward and waited intently for the sunrise. With the first blush of light across the horizon, the throng unleashed a high-velocity "oommm" that rivaled a swarm of yellow jackets...
Lewis, 26, is a singer of sorts, Louganis, 27, a dancer debuting in Indianapolis in October. Forgetting their parts in the epic beach movie Dirty Laundry, both aspire to be actors. "When the bus pulled up to the village the other day," Louganis said, "and I heard someone mention, 'Five to a room, ten to a bathroom,' I thought: 'Why am I still doing this?' " But the answer came to him even before he became the first three-time Pan Am champion of the three-meter springboard. "I still have goals, tremendous goals." At the diving nationals in April, Louganis...
...fast-growing field of high-tech golf clubs -- sticks designed to compensate for poor swings. His putters, irons and metal woods are specially weighted to help golfers keep their shots on line. Demonstrating with a five iron at a course down the coast from his oceanfront home in Long Beach, the 6-ft. 3-in. Duclos jokes that "if you can't hit it straight with these clubs, you need a physical." Apparently, many golfers believe his pitch. Duclos's fledgling Huntington Beach-based company, Slotline Golf, doubled its annual sales to $8 million in 1986 and expects...
Despite the growth of his business, Duclos spends enough time on the fairways to keep his handicap at a respectable 6. Besides the Long Beach home, Duclos and his wife Mollie own a vacation cottage near the famed Old Course at St. Andrews. Off the links, he relaxes by playing Beethoven and Mozart on a Kawai grand piano, accompanied by a $17,000 Kurzweil synthesizer that can replicate the sound of a symphony orchestra...
...conservationists are - increasingly interested in readapting captive or injured sea animals to the wilds. Last month the New England Aquarium, with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, organized a successful attempt to return to the ocean three pilot whales that had washed up on a Cape Cod beach. The $150,000 ORCA effort was the first attempt to develop an entire program for retraining captive dolphins for life at sea. "Projects like this are extremely important," says Whale Expert Roger Payne. "They open up new ways for dealing with captive animals...