Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls were getting out of hand, he put the Folksters onto the truck-bed and sent them out to do a show. Baron ("Buddy") Asher, onetime University of Georgia quarterback and now owner of the Safari Motel, toured college campuses as far as Maryland and Kentucky to offer free beer for parties and, in some cases, rebates on gasoline expenses for the trip south...
...Cool 'Em Off." To Daytona's delight, the experiment seemed to be working out well. "Down in Lauderdale," explained a University of Pennsylvania girl, "if you walk on the sidewalk with a can of beer in your hand, they arrest you. But here they give you a chance." Average daily beer consumption was estimated at three cans per girl, nine per boy (few of the collegians had enough money to buy stronger stuff), and only a few had to be arrested for disorderly conduct...
Predictably, some of the beer buyers were under age (one happy girl sported a false birth certificate that she got for a Christmas present), and minors could always get friends to buy beer for them. The main point, as one cop put it, was: "You treat them like adults and they'll behave like it. The other night two guys began directing traffic on the beach. We couldn't stop them short of arresting them, so we told their buddies, and they threw them into the water. That cooled 'em off and solved the problem." Says Commissioner...
Outwardly stern and arrogant, inwardly trembling, the two lads stand face to face in a room that smells of beer, blood and disinfectant. Each is dressed in a padded leather torso jacket, but except for steel-mesh goggles and noseguard, the head is vulnerable. Now each lad lofts a yard-long rapier with blunt point but sharp edges. At the umpire's "Los!" (go), they slash away-again, again, again-steel against steel for 15 minutes. The noise, astonishingly, is deafening. When steel slashes flesh, a doctor rushes in for repairs. Everyone happily retires to toast the prize...
...lodges of the most socially acceptable students. Each new member, called a fox, had to prove himself in at least two duels, and later fight a dozen or so bouts as a blooded brother. Cheek scars were so prized that men with minor abrasions inflamed them with pepper or beer, or by placing a horsehair in the cut. and soberly got drunk on the theory that alcohol would make their scars more livid...