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...hard-boiled area of steel mills and oil refineries with an abrasive ethnic mix, northern Lake County has not only been invaded by thrill seekers from shuttered Chicago; the crime syndicate, known locally as "the Outfit," has also found a cozy haven there. So cozy, in fact, says a local minister, that today Gary, with a population of only 178,000, has "every problem, vice and crime known...
Even the protests had a somewhat cheerful ring. Some 600 Beatle-maned students tried to crash the palace gates, were held back by police with rubber truncheons (one boy was hospitalized). Several harmless smoke bombs exploded along the parade route, providing good shots for the photographers and a thrill for the millions glued to their TV sets in The Netherlands and West Germany, but no danger to the princess or to the 80,000 loyal Dutchmen who turned out, despite a drizzle, to cry "Oranje Boven" (Up with the Orange). Beatrix and the new Prince Claus of The Netherlands took...
...fistic derring-do, the squat (5 ft. 3 in.), sullen-faced high school dropout dyed his hair black, caked his face with makeup, and stuffed so much wadding in his boots to make him look taller that he could hardly walk. Yet among the odd collection of restless, thrill-hungry teen-agers who hang out in the garish juke joints and drive-ins along Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard (TIME, Nov. 26), swart, blue-eyed "Smitty" commanded adoration and terror...
...varied types of LSD users include vast numbers of thrill seekers. Most have tried marijuana, then the amphetamines, before "graduating" themselves to what they regard as the ultimate in kicks. In the rebellious student groups like those at Berkeley (see EDUCATION) many are trying LSD because they feel lost on an impersonal, bustling campus; others have been squeezed by the need to make better grades to avoid the draft...
...apparatus in a hideout below the Thames, the mass destruction of a peaceful English village. The indestructible Fu finally goes up in flames in a Himalayan monastery, taking the High Lama with him and still muttering darkly: "The world shall hear from me again." That news is unlikely to thrill any but the most Fuhardy addicts...