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...Surf's up!" The cry is universal, both exultation and invitation. It echoes through the meccas of surfdom like a call to battle, from Mar del Plata to Makaha, from Sydney to Tempe, Ariz. Tempe, Ariz.? Surfing...
...Tempe's just opened "Big Surf," the nearest ocean is 350 miles away, the sand beach was trucked in from Phoenix, and the waves are manmade. Yet beyond any doubt, surfing it is. Every 40 seconds, a new wave cascades from one end of the 2½ acre lagoon, carrying as many as 30 boards and bodies on waves up to five feet high. "You don't have to wait for that big one to come along," says Hawaii's Surfing Champion Fred Hemmings Jr., head instructor at the facility. "The surf is always...
...more relaxed and assured-looking figure than the leather-jacketed, unkempt Dylan of old. The hair, once long and wild, was now relatively short. A wispy mustache and thin beard had been added. When he came on, he was greeted by applause that sounded like the roar of surf from the nearby Channel...
...Jersey shore, the snobbish resort of Deal forbids any waterfront property owner or occupant to allow even his own guests to swim from the beach. The rule has rarely been enforced in the past, but when the friends of a wealthy lumber dealer began splashing in the surf at a clambake this summer, the police issued a summons to one guest. He was later fined $200 in court, although the sentence was suspended...
...haven in an ugly war. White sand beaches stretch far at Cam Ranh. Off-duty Americans surf on the gentle swells and snorkle into secluded coves to watch brilliantly colored fish and huge lobsters. There are lighted tennis courts, and at the nurses' Saturday-night dances, the boogaloo and the popcorn are popular. As President Nixon began to disengage U.S. troops from Viet Nam, Cam Ranh acquired new importance as a possible exit or rear-guard enclave for departing American forces...