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...springtime in California, and as they have been doing for years, the Winnebagos are lumbering back to Carmel-by-the-Sea. So are the sedans and station wagons, tour buses and minivans, disgorging hordes of tourists to take in the jade-tinted surf and the sweeping Monterey cypress trees. But a new attraction is luring the curious to this tidy village that clings to a slope above Monterey Bay, some 120 miles down the coast from San Francisco, one far more riveting than the scenery. The big draw is, of all things, a municipal election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead, Voters, Make My Day: Clint Eastwood | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...million on their bacchanal, they return to their college campuses, survivors of spring break. Says Dave Mazur, a Canisius College freshman: "Fort Lauderdale is like Mecca. You have to make the trip at least once. It's what everybody says it is --beaches, beer and bikinis . . . sand, surf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wreaking Havoc on Spring Break | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

Eventually the speech of this renowned oracle, this spirit medium for dead plants, became just so much background noise--like the pounding of the surf, or the whine of a chainsaw. The only bits of excitement were the occasional long periods of silence, each one of which caused me to look up from my notes, half-expecting it to be followed by a dull thud and a cry for oxygen or a taxidermist...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Professing Some Hatred | 3/11/1986 | See Source »

From the time they're old enough to swim, little beach bums are taught to turn their eyes away from the crashing surf of the Pacific, and to concentrate instead on a different kind of water--the chlorinated kind...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: California Dreamin' in Colorado Springs | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

Thirty feet below, the wind drove two-foot whitecaps upstream, and the surf crashed against the base of the bridge...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: 500 Defy Storm, Revel By The River | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

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