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...cost for a day's riding ranges from $1 for children to $3 for adults. Teams of lifeguards enforce strict safety precautions and instruct landlocked tyros. If inland surfing catches on, a projected Clairol subsidiary may build other such centers around the country, paying a royalty to Dexter and his 30 stockholders. In the meantime, Dexter is practicing his surfing. Though he loves the sport, he has never before found time to get very good...
...story called Prometheus by Philip José Farmer, the hero, an intergalactic missionary named Father John Carmody, visits a planet where the inhabitants are only dimly aware that they have souls at all. He then prcceeds to instruct them, in one breathtaking passage, in the basic principles of the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, and the ritual of the Last Supper. As Carmody's spaceship moves away from the planet, the agnostic ship commander chides him. What the priest has done in his effort to instruct, says the captain, is to lay the foundations...
...heavily guarded Prague headquarters last week, it announced a number of repressive new decrees. One prescribed jail sentences of up to three months for anyone who defames a Czechoslovak leader or fails to obey police orders. Another gives the government power to fire teachers who fail to instruct their pupils in accordance with the principles of Socialist society...
Personally, most Greek shipping men scorn the sybaritic life, preferring to live in.a quietly sumptuous style. They shuttle among offices and residences in several countries, unnoticed except by their captains (whom they instruct to call them at any hour of the night if a problem arises). Lemos, for example, maintains his principal office in London, owns a penthouse in Athens and a home in Rye, N.Y., and has permanent suites at Claridge's in London and the Lausanne Palace. Most of the shipowners return to their home islands for summer vacations. When all the clans gather on Inoussai...
...Which brings us precisely to the point. As long as pornography must masquerade as art and display redeeming social value it will not be able to do what it can do best. What good pornography can do best besides titillate, is educates. As long as public schools refuse to instruct people visually in the arts of sex. Pornographic films will perform a vital function of introducing people to the appearance and interesting use of sexual organs...