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...words. It was true that the News's new editor liked choppy prose, especially in the lead paragraph. Too long, said Stuffy to a reporter who had proudly tendered an eight-word first paragraph for a story about economic conditions: "Will there be a boom or a bust?" After repeated tries, the reporter boiled it down to one word: "Boom?" This was followed by a second one-word paragraph: "Bust?" The third paragraph was a shade longer: "This is the question." Stuffy loved...
UNIVESITY: Ft. Lauderdale's annual Beer Bust has been processed and sanitized by Hollywood to emerge sans Beer. A mildly amusing novel has become a very dull, ill-starred (Dolores Hart, George Hamilton) little film. Don't bother about WHERE THE BOYS ARE; the co-feature, on the other hand, might well be worth the effort. SERENGETI is a fascinating color documentary of jungle zoology, by the vater und sohn team of Bernhard and Michael Grzimek...
Home from the heavens, Major Yuri Gagarin was the toast of Russia. Simferopol in the Crimea threw up a hastily sculpted plaster bust of Yuri. Moscow planned a 287-ft. commemorative obelisk. Yuri's voice in space on an LP record with commentary in six languages was being readied for world sale. Yuri's image blossomed on everything from postcards to pottery. The grateful Soviet government outdid itself: it bestowed on the first spaceman and his household of six a new, four-room apartment...
Little Venices. It is the building industry that is doing the most to make Florida boom-and raising the greatest fears of a bust. Even though building was slowed last year by the recession (statewide building was off 20%), communities are still going up at an amazing rate. The biggest, General Development's Port Charlotte on the lower west coast, has mushroomed from vacant land to a city of 7,000 in four years, is planned to hit 750,-ooo. The scramble for waterfront lots is so great that builders are turning parts of the state into little Venices...
Says Hollywood Columnist Joe Hyams: "We all work in an environment that's fraught with hostility. It's great to bust a board instead of a head." Board busting with the naked hand is a spectacular but comparatively recent demonstration of karate (literally, empty hands). Legend holds that the sport was started in the 6th century by an Indian Buddhist monk named Daruma Taishi, who taught it to Chinese monks. It was refined on Okinawa after 1600, introduced in the 1920s to Japan, where it quickly shared popularity with the gentle art of jujitsu and its systematized variation...