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...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...
...Boys Surf, Girls Ride. Biggest boost for riding has been the discovery that you don't have to be a millionaire to own a horse. Not only are fashionable hunts riding with bigger fields, but even polo is making a comeback. There are now 94 polo clubs, 31 of them less than ten years old and many composed of one-or two-pony players. "It's no more expensive than golf," points out Player Bob Crawford of Hamilton, Mass. "All you need is a couple of mallets and a hard hat." And even secretaries making $85 a week...
...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...
...been developed by North Carolina State University grows 4 ft. high in twelve months. Ocean City, N.J., is experimenting with nylon bags that can be filled on the spot with sand and used as temporary groins. On Wallops Island, Va., NASA has proposed planting plastic seaweed just beyond the surf line to reduce the action of the waves...