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Every other finalist at last week's championships used a "gun"-a long, heavy (up to 40 Ibs.) board designed for stability in big waves like Makaha's. Cabell preferred a shorter, lighter (25 Ibs.) foam-and-fiber-glass "natural," designed for easy maneuverability and ordinarily used in smaller waves. Each surfer got seven tries. Cabell rode four of his waves almost half a mile clear in to the beach, catching each looming 25-footer off Makaha's northwestern tip, standing up for 300 yds., dropping prone as it dissolved to foam crossing a reef, then rising...
Trouble Next Door. Some amelioration can be obtained by putting a pad of sound-deadening material under the radio or hi-fi set. "We recommend a waffle padding with a foam rubber back about two inches thick," says Austin Granat, technical consultant for Fisher Radio Corp. But few set owners bother to do anything about it unless the neighbors complain...
...finely wrought as his satiric cartoons. One diminutive inhabitant is a girl no more than an inch high whose brown pigtails fly out from her head like helicopter rotors. Marisol (that's the only name she uses) checked in with a doll of a self-portrait-a foam rubber figure 3 ft. tall, with one red velvet lip, one of red silk. The doll looks like Marisol, who herself looks like something drawn by Charles Addams...
...same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam...
Cage, who has by some means determined that "people today are no longer afraid of time," played Vexations 75 times himself, then retired to sleep soundly on a foam-rubber pad down in the basement. But those who sat through the whole thing found themselves deeply enriched by the experience. The pianists were all transfixed by the music's windshield-wiper logic, and while each played his 20-minute turn (15 Vexations), the relief pianist stood by the piano, cultivating his interior immobility. "This kind of music," said one communicant, "leads toward the elimination of conscious control...