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...pictured -in the traditional way, with bikini-clad girls beside their cabanas, or the old folks retired to the green park benches of St. Petersburg. So TIME assigned three photographers to tell the story of Florida in the age of Canaveral, frozen orange juice and artificially filled-in waterfront lots. Photographers Ormond Gigli and Jim Langley began shooting in February in the south of Florida, working north "to give the vegetation and populace a chance to thaw out." Tony Linck piloted his own plane to get a bird's-eye view of changing Florida. For a pick of their...
Here Comes Pete Now, by Thomas Anderson. The New York waterfront serves as background to an oblique parable of man's groping, with Beckett and Kafka overtones...
...young narrator is simply trying to get a job as a longshoreman on the New York waterfront. But as anyone who has seen the film On the Waterfront knows, when the men jam up at the hiring hall, it is not that simple. The hiring agent may point at Joe or he may give the nod to Frank. Each day the men come back, some hoping for work, some not caring since their mere presence means that they qualify for unemployment insurance...
...Jackie Bouvier, the locale changed after the divorce, but the routine was much the same: Holton-Arms, a blue-chip girls' school in Washington, replaced Chapin, and the gilded summers in East Hampton gave way to the 75-acre waterfront Auchincloss estate in Newport, R.I. If anything, life was more mutedly elegant than before: Merrywood, the Auchincloss chateau in suburban Virginia, is rich with taste and culture: soft-spoken butlers pad across the wine-colored carpets; mellow, morocco-bound classics line the walls; and television is relegated to a tiny recess on one side of the vast fireplace. While...
Guarding the Pool. In Cuba Castro continued his tawdry little melodrama of "invasion." He lined the Havana waterfront with Russian tanks, field guns, four-barreled antiaircraft guns and antitank weapons. One band of defenders mounted a newly arrived 12.7-mm. Czech machine gun on the cabanas of the Habana Riviera Hotel, strategically overlooking a bathing beauty near the pool below. Militiamen took up positions inside Havana's San Francisco Roman Catholic Church and two Catholic schools, mined bridges and fanned out around the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo...