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...climbing right back into the sack's first cousin, the shift. Already a slender trend as winter waned, the shift really switched into high with the summer solstice. On beaches from Maine to Malibu, lissome Loreleis clad in the latest two-piece bathing suits arranged themselves across the sand, apparently to ponder such girth-shaking questions as: How is a girl going to look her best when she isn't looking her barest? Thus, in a blinding flash, came the shift to shifts, biggest cover story in beachwear this season...
...Sand Pebbles, McKenna...
House Upon the Sand, by Jurgis Gliauda. A Lithuanian novelist who endured the German occupation in World War II studies the corrosive effect of Nazi bloodymindedness on a decent German aristocrat...
...catching squid, which is profitable because Latin Americans consider it a delicacy, happily pay high prices for it whenever it is available. The fishermen replied that their squid catch was awful. Why? Well, squid were just too smart to be caught in wholesale numbers. Lusardi squatted in the sand, and the fishermen gathered round while he sketched diagrams of a net-and-jar technique that European fishermen use to outsmart squid. It worked in Venezuela-and Phil Lusardi is king of the beach...
...holes were "blind"-meaning that golfers could not even see the greens on approach shots. And the greens themselves were small, slick and snaky. Winds rising to 45 m.p.h. raked the fairways, turned the greens hard and slick. At times, the gusts seemed to come from every direction, spattering sand in players' faces, carrying well-stroked shots into the rough. On the 14th fairway, Tony Lema tossed a handful of grass into the air, stared stupefied as the grass soared straight upward. Of 401 rounds played, only five were below par 71-incredible in this day of precision golf...