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...pretty quaint to recall that Franklin P. Adams said: "Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net." Today's middle-agers not only dot the greens, they vault the net. They sail, ski, waterski, skin-dive and spelunk. They swim, walk and climb. They fish, hunt, camp and swarm all over the great outdoors from Big Sur to Cape Cod. They are a participating rather than a spectator generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demography: The Command Generation | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

Freewheeling through Europe for a month, Automaker Henry Ford II's pert post-deb daughters Charlotte, 21, and Anne, 19, got to London in time for a coming-out party, then went on to the French Riviera to sail, sun and waterski. Was their first solo trip abroad fun? Everything except those photographers who insisted on snapping the girls getting into a Renault, of all things. "They told us to do it," said Anne, but then she added happily: "We've had a fabulous, wonderful, exciting time. We've been doing just what we wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 3, 1962 | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...town), or out of Brigitte's film And God Created Women, which was also filmed there. For the energetic-those who struggle out of bed before 5 p.m.-there are the long, white beaches, but they are about five miles away. Nobody bothers much to swim or waterski; the beaches are for lolling, in or half out of bikinis. During the day, St. Trop is for the most part a ghost town, much as it was before it was "discovered." At night it blazes into life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: This Happy Few | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...seaplane hull is hardly more of a drawback than the bulky landing gear of a big bomber. Jet engines have cut down the need to raise old-fashioned seaplane propellers high out of the spray. And the hydro-ski, a beefed-up version of the sportsman's waterski, has given the seaplane the biggest boost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Water-Based | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

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