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McClung specializes in short shots, hook shots, and over-the-head flips, near the basket; even opponents as tall as 6-9 haven't been able to stop him. The only way to contain McClung is a tight defense which prevents his teammates from working the ball into him. But even that isn't much of a defense since Big Merle is one of the best outside-shooting centers in the Ivy League...
...nervous wreck-always on the lookout for enemies, spooking at the shadow of a bird overhead, fleeing in panic from the sound of a beer can being opened. Ever so stealthily, the bonefisherman tiptoes across the flats, taking care not to step on sting rays, his freshly baited hook (live shrimp is tasty) all ready, his eyes peeled for a waving tail, a moving shadow, anything that might suggest bonefish. Once in a while he sees the fish before it sees him. Not often...
...through the surf is a little like going on hashish. The addicts-and there are 18,000 of them in the U.S.-have their own fashions in everything from haircuts (long, but not too long) to swimsuits (cotton, a size too small). They speak a lingo of words like "hook" (the lip of a breaking wave) and "tube" (the cavern under the hook) and "wipe out" (a spill into the boiling froth). They listen to apostles, who preach: "When the surf is good, you've got to go and get it. Work is secondary. Once you're about...
...International Surfing Championships. A trim six-footer (most top surfers are short) who has been at it since he was seven, Cabell keeps in shape during the winter by skiing on snow. The two, he says, are a lot alike: "You go as deep into the hook as possible, swinging to the bottom of the wave, then to the top, then back down again-and shoot through for a long, long ride. The idea is to rock the board back and forth with your feet, just like you do with a pair of skis-then break out of the tube...
Many a matron has taken to boots, oblivious of the fact that in them most women over 40 look like Captain Hook, not Peter Pan. On the other hand, young women-including some well-heeled, style-conscious teen-agers (see BOOKS)-have jumped in with both feet. A special favorite is the high-heeled, calf-topping black leather model with the rakish, lady-lion-tamer look. Its teetering heels may make it as impractical as a boot can get-certainly not the thing for fording slushy gutters or negotiating icy pavements. A lack of ice and slush makes the high...