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Seasoned surfers are used to riding unexpected waves, but nothing could have prepared them for the shock they experienced last week when the world's largest producer of surfboard materials abruptly hung up its board. Without any advance warning, the Clark Foam factory-whose polyurethane foam ?blanks? fill more than 75 percent of all surfboards on the planet-shut its doors after 44 years in business, sending the industry into a market-driven panic. Within seconds, surfboard prices around the country skyrocketed...
...waiting for the bus. Although it’s technically winter here, all I need is a jean jacket to fight the morning chill. This morning, as I stand up to board, I see a figure out of the corner of my eye: a man clad in a wetsuit, surfboard in hand, running down the street to catch a quick wave before work...
...Perry thought Mr. Carling “the most good-looking guy” she had ever seen. Noting that her handsome colleague regularly left work with a surfboard in tow, she worked up the courage to ask if he could teach her how to surf at a nearby beach in San Diego, Calif. The two went on a surfing date and were immediately smitten...
Among LIFE photographers, Silk was the motion man, the one who repeatedly devised ways to make pictures that snared action on the wing. He managed to put a camera on a ski and another on a surfboard. He adapted the racetrack photo-finish camera to catch track stars in motion. And for a photo essay on a 14-year-old diving star, he caught her at the very moment she broke the surface...
DiCaprio is so Zen that, with his Lakers hat glued to his head backward and his giant moon face tipped back to enjoy maximum sunlight, sitting across from him can be a lot like talking to a surfboard. But having traversed the pitfalls of being a child actor and a teen heartthrob and then figured out exactly what he would like to do with the next four decades or so of his professional life, DiCaprio is entitled to chill. At 30, he has been a working actor for 17 years. He knows he's pretty good, but he recognizes that...