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Spectacular skiing and near-record performances highlighted the North American Water-Ski Championships held this past week-end on Lake Lashaway in East Brookfield, Mass...
Each trick has a value assessed by the American Water-Ski Association much in the same way as diving stunts are awarded different degrees of difficult. The skier has two 20-second passes in which to perform as many difficult and high-valued tricks...
...Arabic). Badriya was the first Kuwait woman to appear unveiled in public; following her example, most girls in Kuwait now go unveiled. In a land without bars, nightclubs or public dancing, Bader and Badriya still manage to have fun. Bader likes to twist all night at private parties, then water-ski or ride full-blooded Arab stallions seven miles before breakfast. He owns a whole fleet of sports cars, a 75-ft. yacht, and homes in London and Beirut. In Kuwait, such conspicuous wealth is no longer unusual. One sheik bought 63 new American cars at a whack, and another...
...shrewd, ambitious, high-speed operator who somehow manages to be a popular fellow nonetheless. He plays softball with Pancho Gonzales and the sons of Bing Crosby. He is probably the only regular at the craps tables of Las Vegas who goes off in the daytime to water-ski on nearby Lake Mead above Hoover Dam, and his go-go dynamism stops dead when the Dodgers are playing in Chavez Ravine. He takes off for the ball park...
German nudists address each other as Lichtfreund (friend of light), scorn normal bathing areas where clothes are worn as "textile" beaches. Broad-beamed male and female nudists delight in taking group setting-up exercises, sail, water-ski and throw cocktail parties in the buff. The nudists' chief foe is the Roman Catholic Church, which says that nude bathing beaches "are places where immorality is furthered.'' Light friends vehemently deny this charge, say that the reason for the rise in nudism is that "we feel less observed when we're naked." Elsewhere in Europe this summer, Teutonic...