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...ENDLESS SUMMER. Two young California surfers hit the beaches of Africa, Australia, Tahiti and Hawaii, where they discover that surfing is fast becoming an international pastime...
...when they jetted out of Paris. Then Brigitte Bardot, 31, and her new, third husband, Gunter Sachs, 33, roared off to Hollywood for a Mad Hatter nuptial dinner, with Danny Kaye personally whipping up his special seven-course Chinese feed for the couple. Next morning, on they zoomed to Tahiti for a get-away-from-everything idyl-only to find half the French press corps camped in Papeete for the latest French A-bomb tests. So now the honeymooners chartered a yacht and sailed away among the islands, feasting on roast pig and gazing at the mushroom clouds...
...which France uses the site about to run out and Africans, in general, resentful of the French tests, Charles de Gaulle had to find another place to blast. The one he chose is about as far from population centers as possible. It is Mururoa atoll, 750 miles southeast of Tahiti in the South Pacific...
...past three years, France has spent $600 million on the new test facility. Some 15,000 Frenchmen, supported by 40% of France's navy, have been busy building bunkers, laying airstrips, deepening Tahiti's harbor and extending its piers. Last week, the job completed on schedule, French Admiral Jean Lorain gave the order from aboard his flagship, the cruiser De Grasse, and an irregular black mushroom rose above Mururoa lagoon...
...paradise found by two young men with almost nothing else on their minds is remote Cape St. Francis in South Africa, where the small, perfectly curling waves give a long, loose ride. From the shores of Ghana to Tahiti's black sand beaches to Hawaii's perilous "Pipeline"-the Mount Everest of surf-dom-chills and spills crowd onto the screen. Some are caught by a waterproofed camera that behaves like a frolicsome seal, nuzzling close enough to eye a surfer's footwork, or leaving the viewer breathless and upended under a cascade of angry white water...