Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward J. King Thursday signed a bill raising the legal drinking age in Massachusetts from 18 to 20 and said he plans to enforce the law next month, even though the state legislature this week removed the emergency preamble putting the law into effect April...
King, who had lobbied for the drinking age to go up to 21 but settled for 20, wants the bill to go into effect before spring fever hits college campuses and before proms and graduations hit high schools. By filing a letter with the Massachusetts Secretary of State, he can enforce the law at any point within the next 90 days, the normal interval between signing and enforcing...
Several other legislators with large teenage constituencies have warned that raising the drinking age at midnight on April 1 would encourage last-minute parties, especially since March 31 is a Saturday. State Rep. William G. Robinson said if the measure had taken effect on April Fool's Day, "the legislature and governor would have been a damn laughing stock." He recommended allowing the usual 90-day grace period because students would be out of school when the law goes into effect and therefore less likely to protest...
...where a white minority lives in health and comfort, reaping the fruits of a richlyendowed, modern industrial economy. It is also a country where black children are so malnourished, susceptible to disease, and deprived of medical care that, according to United Nations estimates, half of them die before reaching age...
...age 35 Knowles became the youngest general director of MGH, where he began some structural changes to eliminate what he called "the cattle-car concept of medicine." He replaced long wooden benches in the hospital's emergency ward and outpatient department with comfortable modern chairs and remodeled stark waiting rooms...