Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Lake Taal is a pleasant all-day-picnic's drive from Manila. Taal's waters are clear and blue, and in its center rises a 984-ft.-high island, which has its own interior lake, Lake Bonbon. To tourists, Bonbon provides a particular thrill-a look into the eye of a giant killer. For the island in Taal is, in fact, the shell of a volcano, and Lake Bonbon its submerged core, the result of a mighty eruption in 1911 that killed 1,335 people. Since that holocaust, Taal had hardly bubbled out a smoke ring, and some...
First merry George Murphy danced on as a U.S. Senator. Then Good Guy Ronald Reagan strolled in from stage right to thrill his audience with the idea he might run for Governor of California against Pat Brown. Now, with Jimmy Roosevelt giving up his congressional seat from Los Angeles' 26th District to represent the U.S. on the United Nations Economic and Social Council, liberal Showman Steve Allen, 46, says he too might want to get in on the act by trying out for Roosevelt's part. Trouble with the Congress bit, says Steve, is that...