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...ENDLESS SUMMER. Riding the crest of surfing popularity, this beautifully photographed documentary follows two young Californians as they sample the world's beaches in quest of the perfect wave. They find it, too, and in the most unlikely place...
...Bennett himself was a good or bad writer was a judgment that his sometimes awed, often contemptuous contemporaries were never able to make. Partly it was because his physical presence was so overwhelming. He was a strutting cockatoo of a man, resplendently tailored, grey hair swept up into a crest, wit as sharp as a honed spur, manner as crude as a clod. Fascinated by the combination of the baroque and the bumptious of the man, Rebecca West once wondered if it would not be better to judge Bennett as a character rather than an author. "He could...
...nickel-size hole that runs the length of the copper tube, the beam's electrons are immediately accelerated by 6,000,000-watt microwave pulses generated by 245 klystrons-giant, ultrahigh-frequency radio tubes spaced evenly in the structure above the entire length of the tunnel. Riding the crest of the moving radio wave produced by the klystrons, the electrons move only a few feet before they approach the universal speed limit-the velocity of light...
...stake than TWA President Charles Tillinghast Jr., 55, who has been in the airline business just over five years but in that time has helped turn TWA from a floundering giant into one of the industry's highest flyers. The strike caught Tillinghast not only near the crest of TWA's comeback but also at a time when the line must fly if it is to prosper. TWA's income is greatly concentrated in the summer along its west-to-east routes, which span two thirds of the world from California to Thailand...
...throaty voice is pleasant enough, but not even 135 lighting changes could disguise the fact that as a stage personality, she is strictly run-of-the-nil. But no matter; Rosemont has $50,000 tied up in Bobbe, and she is currently riding the crest of a super-promotion campaign that should carry her for months to come...