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...could not sit on the ulcer at the base of his spine. He had heard about stand-up beds and tilt-tables-so why not convert a wheelchair into something similar? Therapist Robert E. Craig and Dr. Hodge M. Eagleson Jr. worked with Boudreaux in perfecting a sort of surfboard-wheelchair combination...
Last week Dr. Eagleson told the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine about the improvisation and later improvements. The surfboard is made from two pieces of plywood hinged together and covered with foam rubber. The bedsore patient lies on it face down, with his legs at an angle of about 20° from the vertical, and the upper part of his body only 25° to 35° from the horizontal. In this position, patients on surfboards can read and eat more comfortably. Their old bedsores heal without surgery, and new sores do not develop. Boudreaux has perfected his board...
...Nothing really does happen. The come-ons are put-ons; there is no smoking or drinking onscreen, and the promised love play is usually limited to an innocent kiss behind a surfboard. Frankie Avalon and ex-TV Mouseketeer Annette Funicello, the romantic leads who trip through their scenes with mindless abandon, come across as the Ma and Pa Kettle of the teeny-bopper set. Explains an A.I.P. market researcher: "Kids realize that sex play exists, but they don't like movies to get involved with it. A boy watching a movie and sitting next to a girl with whom...
...misleading to imply that more than a few moments of The Endless Summer are wavering or forced. The photography is superb, particularly those scenes actually filmed on a surfboard with a waterproof housing wrapped around the camera. And Brown's commentary, if you can stomach the occasional barbarisms or pass them off as charming naivete, is funny and quick...
...Endless Summer. To surfboard enthusiasts, a new wave film is an epic celebrating the cool of a bronzed athlete atop a ten-foot slab of polyurethane foam, shooting through a tunnel of sea-green water formed by a breaker's curl. "The ultimate thing in surfing is to be covered up by the wave," says Bruce Brown, a blond, 28-year-old Californian who probably qualifies as the world's foremost exponent of pleasure before business. A Bergman of the boards, Brown makes his pleasures pay, and has pushed his income into a fun-filled six-figure bracket...