Nation: Where the Bores Are

By Good Friday, Fort Lauderdale was treading water in a wave of 50,000 college students from all over the East, Midwest and South. For 15 seasons, the youngsters have swarmed to the Florida resort to while away their spring vacations in pursuit of sunshine, beer and coeds. This year there was the added stimulus of a sexy film, Where the Boys Are, to bring them running, and the annual invasion was the biggest ever. But, the students discovered, Lauderdale in the spring was dismayingly tame in comparison with the M-G-M script. It was, in fact, just one big. frustrating bore, and...

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