Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ENDLESS SUMMER. Riding the crest of surfing popularity, this beautifully photographed documentary follows two young Californians as they sample the world's beaches in quest of the perfect wave. They find it, too, and in the most unlikely place...
When he goes on the stump, the President certainly has one banner that he can-and does-wave effectively: the considerable accomplishments of his Administration. He repeatedly harks back to the gloomy days of the '30s, reminding his audiences that the problems of prosperity are infinitely preferable to those of depression. Again and again, he tells listeners that they never had it so good, and he unabashedly counts America's-and his-blessings in his speeches. "We have many problems," he says, "but there is not a nation in the world that I would want to trade problems...
Pathologically Worried. What does Mao's latest purge signify? Has Red China finally been driven mad by the mounting U.S. military pressure in Viet Nam? Will a human wave of Chinese soldiers suddenly cascade into Southeast Asia as it did into Korea 16 years ago? Or does the uproar reflect nothing more than an internal struggle for party leadership? No one can be certain. Is the work of the Red Guards just a buildup to another announcement of a disastrous harvest? Elements of all these speculations seemed to be at work in Peking's purge...
...Parisian sense of the word, meaning a designer who makes one-of-a-kind dresses for individual cus tomers. He is Manhattan's aging Mainbocher, 75, born Main Rousseau Bocher in Chicago-and his dresses can be seen on "CeeZee" Guest and "Babs" Paley. But the wave of the future really lies with the younger designers who produce ready-to-wear. To Marc Bohan of Christian Dior in Paris, California's puckish Rudi Gernreich, 44, is the standout. No designer for conformists, he will go all out to make his point, reaped a whirlwind of publicity...
...accused in court. Arguments made in court in the absence of the jury, or evidence excluded by the judge, will not be published either. The rules, to be sure, include an escape clause: the papers reserve the right to suspend them in such extraordinary circumstances as a major crime wave...