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...Falwell's energy and driving ambition. His father Carey, whom Falwell describes as an agnostic, had several servants, and the young Falwell did few chores. His father owned the local power company, ran a dance hall and trucked bootleg whisky during Prohibition. He was a heavy drinker and shot his own brother to death before Jerry was born. A judge ruled the act to be self-defense, since the brother was wielding a pistol. Jerry was a rowdy in his school years, drove cars at 100 m.p.h. and hung around outside a neighborhood cafe late at night with his buddies...
...phrase often used to describe the College is also applicable to the bars around Harvard Square: the hardest thing about them is getting in. But, while the presence of an off-duty cop or huge bouncer in from of big state warnings can be frightening to the neophyte Square drinker, the atmosphere inside most establishments is pleasant and easygoing...
...Mullins, 57, is too angry just to gripe. A Coke drinker for 50 years, he has formed an association in Seattle called the Old Cola Drinkers of America. The group's aim is to force Coca-Cola to switch back to the original + formula or at least release it to another bottler. Mullins first set up a hotline featuring a recorded pep talk: "Let's get Coca-Cola to start making the old Coke again." After receiving 60,000 calls, the line was disconnected last week. Mullins talks about filing a class action against the company, claiming that...
...dropped from 49 to 39 in the past decade. A study showed that 70% of Georgia's eighth- graders had used alcohol, and one expert estimates that the state had 45,000 teen alcoholics. One of every five freshmen at the University of Minnesota admits to being a heavy drinker, which is twice the rate found in 1975. A survey of 1,200 students in fraternities and sororities on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign sketched a portrait of young people heavily dependent on booze to handle stress. More than half said they drink when angry...
...revenues in the lounge mean higher prices in the dining room? For a lot of places, the answer is yes, says Ed Moose, owner of the Washington Square Bar & Grill in San Francisco. While his touted fettuccine still goes for only $8, this may not be typical. "If wine drinkers spend 25 minutes over a glass, whereas the hard drinker orders more expensive spirits every 20 minutes, it changes the economics," he says. "You have to raise food prices...