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Two Hits Already: U.S. Surfing Craze Could Easily Catch On Over Here

June Harris, Disc, 10 August 1963

BEAT BUG... gremlin... hodad... hiway surfer... shooting the curl... stoked... wipe out. This is the jargon used by surf crazy teenagers in California, and throughout the rest of the United States, where "beat music to surf by" is hitting an all time peak.

Total word count of piece: 783

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