Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officer with 29 years of service in the U.S. Navy, thought that he could take care of himself. The Navy disagreed. Aware that the chiefs drinking was ruining both his health and his efficiency, his superiors assigned him to one of the service's newest installations, the Naval Alcohol Rehabilitation Center (ARC) at Little Creek, Va. At first, Frank objected to the assignment: "I'm a chief petty officer and nobody is going to push me around." Several weeks of therapy changed his attitude. "I'm an alcoholic," he acknowledged later. "But there's a cure...
WHEN student activism lulled following the chaos of the student strikes of 1969 and 1970, many observers were quick to hail the demise of campus politics and the growth of alcohol, drugs and apathy. Last Spring the political somnolence of Harvard students was shaken, if not to full wakefulness, at least to a semi-conscious state...
...with his wife Doreen, the daughter of a Jamaican Methodist minister. During an interview in Utrecht with TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling, the General Secretary-elect puffed on cigarillos and sipped a beer. The grandson of a rum distiller, he explained that West Indian Methodists were not as legalistic about alcohol as U.S. Methodists officially were. "My own witness as a young man was not that I would not drink," he recalled in his rich West Indian accent, "but that I would have a little and have a good time anyway...
...been a reporter, an on-camera TV newsman and an actor whose best-known performances were as Tarzan and a cowpoke on a foolish series called Six Guns Across Texas. John Lee Wallace, fed up with Hollywood, returns home to Dallas, leaving a vapor trail of dope and alcohol. He and his best buddy Buster plan to make "one good, true, fair thing"-a documentary film about the real Texas. The time is the late summer...
...influential enemies. They are thought to have started the drinking rumors that have plagued Eagleton's career and are, by every reliable account, without foundation. He was a one-of-the-boys drinker as a weekday bachelor in Jeff City, but no one there recalls that alcohol was ever a problem...