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...small children, Sayle, 4, and Jody, 1. Such a beach would be hard to find in all of Europe. And more and more Americans are realizing that the U.S. has some natural advantages that can outmatch Europe's best. Europe, for example, has no stretch of shore that surpasses Cape Cod's Great Outer Beach with its soaring bluffs; no mountain lakes that are more breathtaking than those in Colorado or Wyoming; no more challenging golf courses than Pebble Beach and Pine Valley; no finer sailing than Cape Cod or the Maine Coast. Moreover, all the food is American...
...Cape Cod is so large, its summer colonies so numerous, and its beaches and sea air so readily available to everyone that many people who have been going there for years are never entirely aware of its social distinctions. "You never know you're out until you get in," said one visitor. Socially, the Cape's "Big Three" clubs are at Hyannisport, Wianno and Oyster Harbors. Not only do they hold their status because of the social standing of members, but also because they command most of the best facilities?golf courses, tennis courts, docks, private beaches and clubhouses. (Oyster...
...Martha's Vineyard, like Cape Cod, ranks high as a fashionable resort only because so many socialites summer there; most ordinary visitors come to relax, enjoy the beaches, the sailing, the salty air and the fishing, and they do not know, or care, that
Before long, Eastern surfers may well outnumber those in the West. Thanks to the Gulf Stream, the summer sea off Cape Cod is warmer than it is just north of Los Angeles, some 550 miles farther south. Says Hobie Alter, the West Coast's leading surfboard manufacturer: "The East has 1,500 miles of warm water in the summer. We have maybe 200 miles on the West Coast, and much of that is away from the centers of population." What is Hobie going to do about it? For a start, he already has eleven East Coast distributors, seven more...
...sheer pyrotechnics and power, there had never been a rocket launch like it. From Complex 40 at Cape Kennedy last week, Air Force Titan IIIC, the heaviest and most powerful rocket system ever launched, blasted off in a mighty torrent of flame and smoke, and with a deafening roar soared out of sight. Though U.S. hopes to close the rocket gap with the Soviet Union rode on the new Titan, the competition this time was not so much international as it was between solid rocket fuels and liquids...