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No one has ever succeeded very well at keeping college kids from drinking -- but town and gown authorities have never stopped trying. In Princeton, N.J., last week Municipal Court Judge Russell Annich Jr. hit two Princeton University students with 30-day jail sentences and $500 fines for serving alcohol to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campus Dryout | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Every year just before Easter, they flock to Florida's beaches, hundreds of thousands of them, bikinis and libidos at the ready. After a week of the unimaginable and the unmentionable (to parents), spending up to $300 million on their bacchanal, they return to their college campuses, survivors of spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wreaking Havoc on Spring Break | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

lege students who make the annual spring-break pilgrimage to Fort Lauderdale from turning the event into the usual brawling bacchanal, authorities this year are trying to fence them in and dry them out. One new feature is a half- mile-long stretch of 4 1/2-ft.-high concrete and chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: Fenced in and Dried Out | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

When Assistant Army Attaché James Holbrook, 41, left Moscow one day last January for a routine reconnaissance trip deep into the western Ukraine, he had no intention of partying along the way-particularly not at a bacchanal funded (and photographed) by the Soviet secret police. But just hours after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attache Case: Assistant Army Attache James Holbrooke | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

The Eagles, one of America's top-selling acts (their last album, 1976's Hotel California, sold 12 million copies worldwide), have been popular favorites even as they have endured some tough drubbing from the critics. The group, particularly Co-Writers Don Henley and Glenn Frey, have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Monster Season | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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