Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale Weekend, like Christmas, comes but once a year. Instead of presents, however, The Weekend tends to bring not only alcohol and dates, but also undergraduate dances. This fall, there are eight of them, including one at Quincy House which attracted the attention of most of the College by threatening to use mattresses for decoration...
...alcohol-free way of life is the best way of life," insisted Mrs. T. Roy Jarrett, 62, a Methodist minister's wife from Richmond, Va., who was elected President of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The W.W.C.T.U. was holding its 22nd triennial convention in New Delhi, India, and President Jarrett soon found that there was work to do. She was going to Jaipur to help her colleagues snuff out that city's consumption of potent jag mohan (110-proof) and gulabi (rose petal liquor). Her substitute for the boozy brews: "a creative recreation...
...coffee dropped from 25,000 tons to 12,000, and last year to 5,000 tons. Starved and graft-ridden, Yemen's 4,500,000 people began exporting themselves; some 500,000 emigrated. The religious as well as temporal leader, Imam Ahmad sternly forbade movies, stringed instruments and alcohol-anyone caught with liquor was publicly flogged...
That murderous byproduct of the gasoline age-the drunken driver-is moving into the sky. In 1961 private planes were in 54 accidents in which alcohol was involved-38 of them fatal...
...changing their practice to attract the growing teen-age population. The common denominator of the exclusively teen-age clubs is that no one out of his early 20s is admitted. In most such clubs there is live entertainment, a hot-dog and hamburger bar, and no drink more alcoholic than Coca-Cola (some serve alcohol-less "beer''). And in all of them-exclusively teen or teen-oriented-the oldsters who thought to give the youngsters a break are reaping a steady profit, often as much as $5,000 a week...