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...little, tousle-haired boy has built a magnificent sand castle, complete with turrets and battlements. Then the rains come. Standing amid the washed-out ruins of his "house upon the sand," the youngster seems to be groping for a half-forgotten truth from Sunday school. "There's a lesson to be learned here somewhere," he says wanly. "But I don't know what...
...Kirk Douglas is at sea, his wife (Barbara Bouchet) is at play, behaving like a one-woman luau. She shakes her hips at an Air Force major, lures him away for a nude swim, wakes up on the beach next morning in bleary panic as enemy planes strafe the sand and the holocaust at Pearl Harbor begins...
Confections in Concrete. On March 26, 1915, when it officially became a city, Miami Beach was not much more than a spit of sand across Biscayne Bay from Miami. Beyond the sand lay mangrove swamps being reclaimed from the alligators by a few adventurers with a scattering of small houses and high hopes. Miami's present style is largely the doing of serendipitous Millionaire Carl Graham Fisher of Indianapolis, manufacturer of PrestOLite auto headlamps. One day in 1912, Fisher looked at the all but deserted beach and had a vision. He filled in swamps, paved roads, laid out golf...
...vast majority of students, the spring break is still a time for the pursuit of pleasure. Thousands of kids are streaming into the Florida beach towns of Fort Lauderdale (where boys express their goal as "beach, broads and booze") and Daytona Beach (where the theme is "sex, sand, suds and sun"), even though the Ivy League considers such places to be Out. "Cliffies look down on the kind of orgy that goes on in some sections of Florida," explains Radcliffe Junior Ellen Lake. Stephen Cotler, an editor of the Harvard Crimson, observes that it's not chic...
During the day the students will paint and sand the center and at night they will attend seminars dealing with the political, social, and racial problems facing a southern city. In addition, the two Cliffies, Karen R. Groenfeldt '67 and Sally S. Seaver '67, will probably mend clothes and run a day camp...