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...with ostensible success. But sometime in his junior or senior year he develops an insatiable craving for high school culture. Oddly, he is most often one who despised that way of life as a high school senior. But suddenly, having always hated rock 'n' roll, he finds himself singing surf songs in the shower, going to drive-in movies, to Saturday night "Y" dances, bowling, and travelling out with the boys for a big hairy pizza afterwards. Graduation almost upon him, he undergoes a painful nostalgia for the days he racked up A's with short essays...
Fifteen years ago, California politics was floating through an era of constructive good feeling. Governor Earl Warren had spread his bipartisan patrimony over every policial faction, and candidates ran for office with genteel good humor, eschewing debate for folksy celebrations of the sun, surf, and oranges...
...fleet of Hydroskimmers, and numerous problems remain to be solved. For one, the craft moves so fast as it approaches a beach that the helmsman has almost no time to avoid bad landing spots. Little is known about how the Hydroskimmer handles in a rough sea, and a heavy surf might damage the craft's engines...
...ugly actor Jean-Paul Belmondo travels in eleven different vehicles as his adventures bring him from Paris to Rio, to Brasilia, and to the Amazon jungle itself. And Harvey pointed out how each and every trite situation, from ledge-climbing falls onto rooftops to skin-clinging falls in the surf are brilliantly conceived and executed. Of course, he is right...
...came to Atlantic City. First to arrive was Joan, wife of Senator Teddy, still abed with a broken back after a June air crash. Joan had been appointed by Governor Endicott Peabody to serve as a Massachusetts delegate, and she had a marvelous time, plunging gaily into the Atlantic surf, smiling beautifully at receptions and rallies. But she turned solemn when, asked how she would compare last week's convention with the one that nominated Jack Kennedy. "There will never," she said, "be another...