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...raising of the minimum drinking age or attempts to limit hours of taverns and liquor stores. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States has stepped up its ads counseling moderation, and still voluntarily keeps liquor commercials off television. Says Duncan H. Cameron, director of communications for DISCUS: "We have spent more than $10 million since 1972 getting across the message that drunk driving is an irresponsible abuse of both the privilege to drink and the privilege to drive...
...Women's Discus Trials and Final...
...begin in the fall, the program will include a series of short skits, acted out by Wellesley students, which confront alcohol-related problems. The audience will discus and revolve the dilemmas, Gleason said, because "people don't learn from lectures. They learn from talking and discussing with each other...
...Mary Slaney now, wed the first day of the year to bulbous Richard Slaney, a British discus spinner. Last week she closed her indoor season unluckily with a pulled calf muscle, but in three races she collected another world record, her 16th. She runs like Mercury. "Some day I want to be a mother and do normal things," she says, "but for now I just want to get better, better and better. If the Olympics did anything for me, it renewed that desire." Her winter has been eventful. Several days after the fact was only casually reported to Oregon police...
...phrase was heard less often when it came to the men's events. In the 24 track-and-field events, the Soviet-bloc men outdid their hypothetical Olympic rivals in nine. Power, not speed, was their forte. In the brawny field events-hammer, javelin, discus and shotput-three Soviet athletes and one East German exceeded the winning distances in Los Angeles. In the pole vault, the high-flying Konstantin Volkov of the the U.S.S.R. cleared 19 ft. ¼in., two inches higher than the winning Olympic vault. Five world records were achieved in the pool. "The water is fast...