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...this month in Miami to do his duty at the trial of an accused rapist, but during the lunch break he was seen talking to the defendant. At lunch, it turned out, he had had at least two martinis and, when the trial resumed, as is the martini drinker's wont, he fell asleep...
...France and New Zealand. The Social Research Group of George Washington University reports that two of three adult Americans (21 and over) drink at least occasionally, one in eight drinks to excess and one in 16-or about 6,800,000-drinks enough to be classified as a problem drinker. The estimated 1967 consumption of some 4 billion gallons represents a record alcoholic tide, suggesting a land of serious, two-fisted drinkers...
...profile of the average U.S. drinker is largely reassuring. He has his first taste at age twelve to 14-commonly by receiving a sip of the family stock. Before graduation from high school, he is drinking at least episodically-along with more than three-fourths of the student body. Like the hippie minority, most youthful drinkers stick to wine and beer, possibly because liquor is regarded as the old folks' hang-up but more probably because the lighter drinks are easier on the pocket and the throat...
College-graduate drinkers in the U.S. vastly outnumber those whose formal education has stopped at the grade-school level (80% to 53%), and there are more well-to-do drinkers than poor: it takes money to drink. The average drinker is more likely to be a Roman Catholic than a Protestant. One reason is that many Protestant faiths, notably the Baptists and the Methodists, traditionally forbade drinking. The George Washington University survey classified 56% of all drinkers as moderate, only 12% as immoderate...
...trying to foster a similar attitude in its Chevrolet gear-and-axle plant on the fringe of one of Detroit's worst slums. Its solution: an eleven-member committee of overseers that does for the unmotivated unemployed what Alcoholics Anonymous does for the overly motivated drinker. When one of die newly hired slum dwellers misses the whistle on Monday morning, one of the eleven goes to his house, wakes him up, dresses him, gives him a cup of coffee-and delivers him at the factory gate...