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...ENDLESS SUMMER. Even those who don't know a pipeline from a wipeout will have no trouble following the action of this beautifully photographed odyssey of surfing...
...long upward odyssey, man has never been confronted with anything quite like it. It is an ocean without shore, yet it bathes every nation's border. It is a military "high ground" of measureless potential, yet no nation has so far dared to exploit it. It is a resource of such proportions that man has only begun to tap it. And in all this vast province of opportunity called space, no writ runs. All the experience of quest and conquest, of discovery and exploration of the earth provides scant precedent for dealing with the promise and problems of space...
...ENDLESS SUMMER. Even those who don't know a pipeline from a wipeout will have no trouble following the action of this beautifully photographed odyssey of surfing...
...senior citizen on a round-the-world tour needs to set aside some time for idleness. Last week Charles de Gaulle, nearing the end of an odyssey that b gan three weeks ago in riotous Djibouti, took time out as the Senior Citizen of France in its island colonies in the blue Pacific. In Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia in the Coral Sea, he largely confined himself to an avuncular speech in Coconut Square. Then he touched down at the curious condominium of New Hebrides, jointly run since 1906 by the French and the British. French officials...
...seen the movie nor read the book.) Even the fiction, however, pales before the fact. There was Scripture-reading Howard Unruh's 20-minute orgy that brought death to 13 people in Camden, N.J., in 1949, and bandy-legged Charles Starkweather's slaying of ten during a three-day odyssey through Nebraska and Wyoming in 1958. There were the two murderers of the Clutter family, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, now enshrined in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, the year's most talked-about bestseller. Only last month, when eight student nurses were slain in a Chicago town house...