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...Baron Arnaud de Rosnay is no run-of-the-disco jet-setter. The dashing entrepreneur already has behind him careers as France's national surfboard champion, a photojournalist, a publicist and a backgammon promoter. Now, like a man who contemplates an ocean and invents the squirt gun, De Rosnay has come up with a parlor game based on the energy crisis...
...Most Individual award went to a wet suited fellow paddling a wide surfboard. Two girls with an umbrella sail on a raft of plastic bottles won the Most Ambitious With Least Potential award...
...Boulders lay haphazardly, and bridge structures were ripped and dangling. It was like nothing I've ever smelled before and hope to God I never do again." Another Journal reporter, Harold Higgins, stood on a bridge and watched a 30-foot house trailer "riding a wave like a surfboard." A woman reported "a Volkswagen floating down the street with the people hanging on and screaming for help...
...offered swimming, tennis, skeet shooting, putting green, movies, bicycling and roller-skating. Tricia, who calls herself "the world's most unathletic woman," tried to keep up with Ed, who has an almost indiscriminate passion for sports. "The only time I have seen Edward uncoordinated," Tricia says, "is on a surfboard." In winter there is a roaring fire in the lodge, but Tricia unexpectedly came up with another pastime: "Eddie and I have discovered a marvelous thing to do up there in the winter. We discovered the sauna, and then we go into the pool afterward instead of the snow...
...cannot expect that kind of response from Nixon, Students speak to him of burning babies in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and he laments the sad state of the surfboard. One must perceive Nixon as a political man. His most genuine anger in the last two years has been directed against a balking Senate after the Carswell defeat. And only in the Senate, is an immediate and stinging response to the raids on North Vietnam possible...