Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gasohol is part of America's future. Why imply [April 9] that alcohol must come only from food crops? Distilling can also turn various grasses, weeds and shrubs into fuel...
...diet is simple and time has proved it safe," explains Tarnower. "People are willing to put up with the discipline and deprivation necessary because they know it works." The discipline is strict indeed. No alcohol, no snacks (except raw carrots and celery), no sugar, no oils. The dieter must follow, for two weeks at a time, a day-by-day menu that allows no substitutions. At least by the dieter. Tarnower himself changed the menus somewhat when he wrote his book. For example, the dinner that the original followers most dreaded (cottage cheese, eggs and cooked cabbage) has been changed...
...campus stringers for the major news media were finding lean fare in student activism, and so they started writing about how college kids those days held proms and swilled alcohol and joined fraternities and Republican clubs. And liked it. Undergraduate interest in Economics at Harvard was picking up about then, as was undergraduate interest in joining the corporate fold. There had been days of rage and even years of outrageous behavior, but kids would, after all, be kids. The watchers called it the New Mood, but it was really the old mood, which was no particular mood...
Whether students follow these directives is another matter. Some Houses are holding entryway parties--at which alcohol is served--rather than happy hours...
...YORK--The Point Reyes, Calif, Light, a weekly newspaper with one full-time reporter and a circulation of 2700, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for public service yesterday for its investigation of Synanon, the controversial West Coast drug and alcohol rehabilitation center...