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When he finally gets around to shaving. Fred also better look out for the well-hung surfer gliding off his neck, his rainbow-striped surfboard jutting out like a monstrous fiberglass phallus. Not to mention avoiding getting lost in the tropical rain forest or falling off the water fall over to the left...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Change Your Existence | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...tragedy was the worst of a rash of shark attacks along the upper west coast of the U.S. since Labor Day. Paul Parsons, 33, another abalone diver, suffered puncture wounds and lost much of his left buttock when a shark mauled him in the waters north of San Francisco. Surfer Bob Rice, 25, watched in horror as a 12-ft. carnivore clamped down on the front of his surfboard before swimming away in the waves off Cape Kiwanda, Ore. Says he: "It missed my hips by about four inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Dangers of the Red Triangle | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

Early this year, it seemed that Roger Hedgecock, 38, San Diego's dashing, telegenic liberal Republican mayor, was leading a charmed political life. A former environmental lawyer and avid surfer, Hedgecock was elected in May 1983 to complete the term of Republican Pete Wilson, who had left for the U.S. Senate. In 16 months Hedgecock formed a broad-based political coalition in a traditionally conservative city, and was considered a shoo-in for election to a full four-year term this November. But last week a county grand jury returned a 15-count felony indictment against the mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: San Diego: Indicting a Mayor | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...Wilson, 39, boisterous, handsome drummer, keyboardist and singer of California's enduring rock-'n'-roll band the Beach Boys; of accidental drowning when he dived off a boat slip into 12 ft. of water; in Marina Del Rey, Calif. Wilson, the Beach Boys' only genuine surfer, named the upbeat, harmonizing quintet that since 1961 has glorified the sea, the sun, teen love and cars in such hits as Good Vibrations, California Girls and Surfin' U.S.A. Although Wilson often feuded with other group members, he was on board for the satisfying moment last summer when President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 9, 1984 | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...probably telling the truth. Bouterse may have feared that he would surfer the same fate as his friend Maurice Bishop, the Marxist Prime Minister of Grenada who was deposed and killed. Bouterse hinted that he suspected Cuban complicity in Bishop's overthrow. Perhaps too, Bouterse, who seems motivated primarily by a desire to maintain his repressive regime, did some political recalculating in the wake of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. He may have concluded that leftist revolution is no longer the wave of the future in the Caribbean and that he should make himself less obnoxious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flip-Flop | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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