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HARROWING. The poignant blue skies, the silver-clear air, the surf splashing on the rocky coast proved irresistible to Bob and Jan Plunkett (not their real names) when they vacationed in Maine four years ago. A year later, Bob quit his city job as a commercial artist, and the couple sank all of their $26,000 savings in a partially completed home 15 feet from the waves on an inlet in Maine...
...wont to slobber through "ba-ba-ba-ba-barbara ann." I've always felt a little sorry for the Beach Boys, because it is their singular misfortune to represent rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented the fact that they managed to ride surf music, that most dubious of forms, to fame and fortune. They don't do that sort of thing any more. Brian Wilson can't hear well enough to sing, the whole band struggled with the Maharishi, there was even a time when Mike Love Had All the Answers...
...wont to slobber through "ba-ba-ba-ba-barbara ann." I've always felt a little sorry for the Beach Boys, because it is their singular misfortune to represent rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented the fact that they managed to ride surf music, that most dubious of forms, to fame and fortune. They don't do that sort of thing any more. Brian. Wilson can't hear well enough to sing, the whole bank struggled with the Maharishi, there was even a time when Mike Love Had All the Answers...
...Clemente, the heavy surf pounding below Richard Nixon's clifftop redoubt was shrouded by the early morning fog last week, and inside his secluded den the President was perhaps more solitary than ever before. With a swivel of his big chair, he could have seen for himself what his former aide, John Dean, was saying before the Senate Watergate committee. But the television screen remained blank...
...ADLER, independent producer and head of Ode Records. Tall, thin, ultra-soft-spoken multimillionaire of 37. Produced Monterey Festival as well as subsequent film, Monterey Pop. Background as reigning impresario of California surf music (Jan and Dean); later managed the Mamas and the Papas and founded Dunhill Records, which he sold to ABC in 1966 for $3 million. Current label boasts Carole King, Comedy Duo Cheech and Chong and $400,000 new album of Tommy that has earned back $5 million. Dabbles in California real estate, currently dates Actress Britt Eklund. Has houses in Malibu, Bel Air and Jamaica, rises...