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...alcoholism. Alcohol is involved in over two-thirds of the nation's homicides, half of the nation's incidents of child molestation and rape, and almost 70 percent of the nation's assaults. In total, alcohol contributes to as many as 100,000 deaths each year. Even Dr. Carlton Turner, director of the White House Drug Abuse Policy Office, agrees that alcohol is America's greatest drug threat...
Tensions continued to rise before the convening of last week's decisive board meeting, the first since the latest layoff announcements. The final stages of the drama began the night before the Sept. 10 session, over dinner in a private room at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton hotel. Originally Wyman had planned to be host to the affair for a number of board members, but then he suddenly canceled. Tisch also was not present...
...directors were disturbed by reports, including those in a Newsweek cover story on CBS's troubles, that Wyman had talked to officials at several companies about a possible merger. (TIME has learned that feelers were indeed received by Philip Morris.) According to one of those present at the Ritz-Carlton, the directors considered such a purchase a bad idea; Paley was especially opposed. As a board source later explained, "We don't want the management of a big company that is in some other business to exert an unfair and self-serving influence on public attitudes...
More prisons and more judges are urgently needed. But many authorities fear that the maximum conceivable increase would not do much good; without some reduction in drug demand, the problem will simply remain too big. Says Carlton Turner, drug adviser to Ronald Reagan: "If this initiative of the President's becomes (only) a law-enforcement initiative, it's dead...
Almost 90 percent of the Charles Hotel, 20 percent of the Ritz-Carlton and 15 percent of the Westin Hotel were taken up last night by Harvard revelers, hotel officials said. "Everyone's dressed in tuxes, and everyone's wearing crimson ties," said Martha W. Sullivan, public relations director for the Charles Hotel. "The celebration is keeping the Charles Hotel, as well as other hotels in Boston and Cambridge, very busy," she said...