Word: surfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high hopes for 1968. From its stainless steel stems hang 24 freeform wooden leaves. Twenty-three of them bear cameo-style carvings of past Presidents, including every Republican elected since Lincoln broke the ice in 1860. The 24th is blank, but the conventioneers, their euphoria heightened by the sun, surf and sand of Miami Beach, are confident that it will some day bear the likeness of whomever the G.O.P. happens to nominate this week...
...influence in the nation's high schools. The Madison, Wis., chapter will try to do so this summer by publishing a state-wide underground newspaper aimed at teenagers, sending a "radical rock-'n'-roll band" to tour youth-recreation spots. It even hopes to "radicalize" a surf club in Sheboygan and send its recruiters across the state line into Dubuque, Iowa, home of the original Little Old Lady...
...good one comes along. Bathed in innocence, making mistakes as though they had never been made before, Harvey Hart's The Sweet Ride exists in passive limbo between art and product and, like Blow-Up, reminds us how much can be created from a skeletal dramatic narrative. Its surf, cycle, and psychedelic setting is seldom exploited as such, and even the semi-mystery which motivates the plot is largely abandoned in favor of extended description of a bittersweet life-style gone slightly out of hand. The Sweet Ride tries to beat the trappings of its own genre by being...
...decades, Australia has relied on the U.S. as its chief ally in the Pacific. In recent years that tie was immensely strengthened by close personal rapport between President Johnson and Prime Minister Harold Holt. When Holt drowned in the surf off Portsea last December, much of the intuitive understanding between Washington and Canberra died with him. Holt's successor, John Grey Gorton, has been so beset by doubts about the durability of the U.S. commitment to Asia that Australia is considering a complete overhaul of its own defense and foreign policies...
...matter of brute strength. Girls are gratified that they become good riders through developing their skills and fine sense of touch." Adds Carol Metzger, 40, of Portuguese Bend, Calif., whose daughter Katie, 8, rides the family's Welsh pony Blue Jay: "All the boys around here surf, all the girls ride...