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Electronic breath analyzers have long been standard equipment for highway patrolmen. Now they are also featured in about 150 bars in at least eleven states (and some 400 pubs in Canada as well). A drinker merely drops a quarter in a slot and blows in a straw. The machine then registers the alcohol level in his or her blood. In most states, anyone with a reading of more than .10% alcohol in the blood is considered legally drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Americana, Nov. 14, 1977 | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...plots. Before he was out of his teens he had, among other things, shipped on a sealing expedition to the Bering Sea, worked 14-hour days in a California cannery, ridden the hobo rails cross-country and served 30 days in a Buffalo jail for vagrancy. A heavy drinker by the age of 16 with a voracious appetite for undercooked meat and slightly overripe women, he gave every promise of going on to become a late-19th century rebel without a cause-one of those frontiersmen with no frontier whose energies slowly dissipate in an aimless barroom brawl with life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Redskin in the Parlor | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

Nelson turned out to be the natural bridge between country music's beer-drinker followers and its longhair fans. As a singer, he is a careful stylist who knows about the niceties of phrasing and admires Frank Sinatra. When Willie sings his songs of troubled romance or lonely Bloody Mary mornings, his voice has none of the beery sentimentality found in many honky-tonk laments. "What we do is fairly simple," he says with genuine modesty. "If people like it, they really like it and they'll come back again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In the Heart of Honky-Tonk Rock | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Those who prefer martinis or soft drinks think beer drinkers are just a bunch of mugs. In fact, the true beer drinker is just as great a connoisseur as any sampler of Château Lafite. Beer tastings are a commonplace in almost every town that offers more than one beer to have when you're having more than one. In addition to domestic products, consumers check out the great German and Dutch prizewinners (some 6,000 local brews are available in those beer-loving nations), the Czech Pilsner, which many consider the world's finest, plus imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Summer: Beer: The Froth of July | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...Rand study implied-but to lasting chemical changes in the brain. Still, Myers, who has also discovered a chemical that reduces alcohol consumption in addicted animals, holds out hope. If alcoholism is really rooted in brain chemistry, a drug treatment may be devised to help the problem drinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, May 9, 1977 | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

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