Word: surfer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, California newspapers offer frequent columns of surf news. Magazines such as Surfer and Surfing Illustrated have appeared on the stands. Surf songs keep deejays spinning even in Chicago, which is relatively surfless. And from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border, when the word goes out that "surf's up!" whole families go streaming toward the handiest stretch of Pacific shore. "Ninety percent are beginners," broods Bill Cooper, executive secretary of the U.S. Surfing Association. "Half of them give it up in a year or two, but then there are more-and the real danger of surfing...
...Summer to Remember (Mosfilm; Kingsley) is a Russian film, the 16th in the current exchange program, that will surely surfer at the U.S. box office from the painful pre-release publicity devised by the A-bombinable Showman in the Kremlin. Nevertheless, U.S. moviegoers who care to look behind the headlines at some of the more agreeable aspects of life in Soviet Russia will find this picture a delightful excuse to get in and out of the fallout. Summer tells a hearty, happy, natural, touching and sometimes gorgeously funny story of a little boy's life in Russia today...