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...kids, if you act now, you can thrill to the widescreen, Technicolor destruction of the Nazi fuel depot as millions of gallons of burning petrol light up the sky. There hasn't been so much oil on the screen since the last closeup of Elvis Presley's hair...
...average thrill seeker, if there is such a type, may still be high on LSD. But to serious researchers, it has become as old hat as peyote and marijuana. Meeting last week at San Francisco's University of California Medical Center, 200 experts in psychiatry and pharmacology concentrated instead on the many other mind-altering drugs that are far older historically but now seem new because they have yet to be thoroughly investigated...
Chamberlain seems perfectly content with his new role as the self-effacing team player-particularly since it may at last bring him the one thrill he has missed so far: playing on a championship team. Of course, that will probably require beating the Celtics in the playoffs, and Wilt knows how tough a job that is. "The Celtics are better than us at every position but one," he says. "You can guess what that position...
...Cerf is keenly, folksily optimistic. He feels that there are positive forces at work too. "The trash market is always with us, but the thrill of dirty words and explicit sex episodes is a very evanescent one, and as the taboos drop, it is already beginning to pall. Today's writers are a great bunch. Out of that group will emerge the next Hemingway and Faulkner. You can't rush...
...great and profitable university" if it did not "concede to our demands." Actually, the new fuss had alerted most of Berkeley to the fact that the freedom of students and faculty-and the intellectual luster of the entire university-would certainly suffer unless order is maintained. The nonstudent thrill seekers had unwittingly strengthened the hand of Chancellor Heyns...