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...Brooklyn pitcher, estimates, "On the championship team of '55, I guess the Dodgers had seven or eight abusive drinkers, including me. In society, we don't take alcohol too seriously. In sports, we laugh at it. It's all one big Lite-beer commercial." He's an alcohol counselor now, and the counselors have a pretty good pitching rotation. "I never really knew what it was like to pitch a sober inning," says Ryne Duren, the Yankee reliever of the early '60s. "When I was with the Yankees in the mid-'70s," says Sudden Sam McDowell, "they hired a baby...
...Bronx, worries about flying because, among other things, she keeps hearing about "parts falling off the planes." Eastern has acknowledged a decline in bookings in the wake of the FAA probe, even though both that carrier and Continental expect the investigation to exonerate them. Ronald King, a Brooklyn school counselor, almost canceled two Eastern tickets for a Bahamas vacation with his girlfriend. Says he: "I had to stop reading the newspaper so I wouldn't get scared of getting on the plane." The airlines know well the devastating visual impact of a damaged plane. When the fuselage of an Eastern...
...could Japan surpass the U.S. in so many industries so quickly? That oft asked question receives an unusually thorough and thoughtful examination in Trading Places: How We Allowed Japan to Take the Lead (Basic Books; $19.95). Written by Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr., the counselor to the Secretary of Commerce for Japan Affairs between 1983 and 1986 and now a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, this "epic tale of reversal," as the author calls it, starts with Japan's 1945 surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri and chronicles its four-decade push toward economic victory...
Because of their different lifestyle, married students need special advising, and they receive it from Dudley House Senior Tutor John R. Marquand. Marquand, who advises all Dudley affiliates, says. "I'm not really qualified to be a marriage counselor, but I've been asked to advise on those matters. It is not really so different from talking about your boyfriend or girlfriend...
...College. With promises of a dazzling career, he persuaded her to drop out and enroll in a $5,000 "computer communications" course. She would qualify for a federally guaranteed student loan, she was told, if she would fake her age upward a year to 17. Though her school guidance counselor warned that she lacked the skills for such a program, Hernandez enrolled, only to quit when the going got too rough. Now receiving bills for $4,400 in outstanding loans, she baby-sits for a precarious living. "I just wasted my time," she says. "I didn't learn nothing" -- except...