Word: waved
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Teenagers seem especially drawn to the waves. In the Eastern Surfing Association, an East Coast club based in Rhode Island with 6,000 members, the average age is 17, down from 21 five years ago. E.S.A. Executive Director Colin Couture believes that young people flock to the beaches because they are tired of highly regimented school sports. Says Couture: "In surfing, it's between you and the wave." Couture, who has persuaded the Boy Scouts in California, New Jersey and Florida to sponsor surfing programs, thinks the image of the sport has improved and is thus attracting more participants. "There...
...DEADLY ROUNDUP AT SEA Pressure mounts to save the dolphin by restricting tuna fishing AND WITHIN MINUTES HALF A DOZEN POWERFUL SPEEDBOATS ARE LOWERED OVER THE SIDE INTO THE BRIGHT WATERS OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC. BURSTING INTO NOISY LIFE, THEY SLICE THROUGH THE CRESTING WAVE TOPS AT 35 KNOTS. DEAD AHEAD OF THEM, A POD OF PORPOISES, OR DOLPHINS, BOLT WITH FRIGHT, BUT THE FLEEING MARINE MAMMALS ARE SOON OVERTAKEN. LIKE COW PONIES ROUNDING UP CATTLE, THE SPEEDBOATS HERD HUNDREDS...
...more intelligent mammals, seem to have recognized the tuna-fishing threat. As recently as 15 years ago, says Veteran Tuna Skipper Harold Medina, they could be rounded up easily with a couple of skiffs propelled by small outboards. Sometimes they would even play in the mother ship's bow wave. Now, in areas where dolphins have been heavily fished, they are much more difficult to corral, forcing the fishermen to resort to more and higher-powered chase boats. Mexican fishermen call these recently sophisticated dolphins the "untouchables," because they disappear at the first sight of a fishing boat. The discerning...
...true what they say about Dixie?/Does the sun really shine all the time?" The lyrics of the old song have been given a cruel gloss by the pitiless two-week-old heat wave that has baked the life out of the Southeast. Ten days of sauna-like temperatures of 100 degrees or more have exacerbated four months of drought, perhaps the worst dry spell in the region's history. So far, 15 people have died of heat prostration. Peanuts, hay and cotton have shriveled; the agricultural loss in Georgia is already estimated at $140 million. In North Carolina, some...
...atypical. So starved was the press for news that reporters zeroed in on arriving Cousin and Bridesmaid Sydney Lawford McKelvy in the Barnstable airport ladies' room and besieged her with questions as she changed her son's diaper. The mother of the bride was characteristically silent, but she did wave cheerily to onlookers when she arrived from her estate on Martha's Vineyard...