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...PROBLEM DRINKER...
MORE than 2,000,000 U.S. workers are either alcoholics or problem drinkers. Last year they cost U.S. industry more than $1 billion and 13 million man-hours lost through absenteeism (average: 22 days), slowdowns, inefficiency, accidents and loss of trained personnel. Time was when industry ferreted out such workers and fired them. Today the boss still keeps a close eye out for the problem drinker, but it is more often to help than to fire him. Faced with new understanding of alcoholism as a mental illness-and with a nationwide shortage of trained workers-more and more companies...
...LION AND THE THRONE, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. Biography in the grand manner; the life and times of Sir Edward Coke, who became the watchdog of the common law, bluntly told British kings that law was their sovereign and defined legal principles that stand triumphant three centuries later...
fighting the mirror: the Sunday exercise of a drinker disgustedly confronted by his own face...
...July President Garcia "released" some $10 million of public funds to dole-hungry Nacionalista Congressmen, and he has promised another $60 million. Much of this money goes through Laurel's hands. But José is frowned upon by the church; he has an unsavory reputation as a hard drinker and a frequenter of nightclubs, where he has an irritable habit of picking on customers whose looks displease him. His victims are particularly annoyed by the fact that Laurel's bodyguards protect him from justifiable retaliation...