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...eight water-splashed pages of color, TIME tours the sun, scuba and surf spots, and in accompanying text sorts out the places for those who want shopping, gambling, nightclubbing, and those who only want to be within earshot of a whispering palm. From the shivering north of Manhattan two teams went reconnoitering in the sun-one to the northern islands, from the Bahamas to the Virgins, the other down the stepping stones of the Leeward and Windward Islands to Trinidad. Correspondents Ed Reingold and Kenneth Froslid and Photographer J. Alex Langley did the first, and Rosemary Frank and Carl Mydans...
They once were not welcome at Mar del Plata. In 1886, when the seashore city was first linked to Buenos Aires by rail, Argentina's cattle barons took a liking to the foaming, cool surf, and invited their rich friends to build summer homes...
...mostly from the U.S. and Britain. Per capita income among Hussein's 1,800,000 subjects has doubled to $168 in the same period. Factories are being built almost as fast as Bedouins pitch tents, turning out practically everything from potash byproducts on the Dead Sea to Surf detergent near Amman. Thanks to a gigantic natural hothouse in the Jordan River valley, 65 miles long and as much as ft. below sea level, Jordan is now the region's biggest exporter of vegetables. Irrigation experts are siphoning water from the Yarmuk River and tapping long-unused Roman cisterns...
Dribbles appear where they make sense--as foam in a rough surf, or as leaves or moss on birch trees. Scratches too fit in as the birches' smaller branches and twigs. Though frequently each spot of paint is applied with a certain amount of grossness, the composite usually reveals striking unity and conveys a powerful impression...
Gretel then took advantage of an old Australian custom and, catching the following seas on her broad stern, surf-boarded home to a :47 victory and the fastest 24 mile race ever sailed by the swift Twelve meter sloops...