"LOCAL TROUBLE" 1972 SURFING EDITORIAL
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This single-paragraph editorial, by publisher Don Thomas, ran in the February 1972 issue of Surfing magazine. It was preceded, in the same column, by a short piece condemning the behavior of American surfers abroad. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Closer to home, conflicts are even worse. Every local area has a group of vigilantes whose self-determined destiny is to keep their surf ...
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