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...most especially in the last year," wrote Mills, "I had scarcely noticed that my drinking habits had changed perceptibly. I now realize, after several weeks of treatment by the doctors and soul-searching of my own, that I had developed a severe drinking problem, not as a daily drinker but as a periodic heavy drinker. I did not know that this pattern corresponds with what is known as alcoholism...
Mills thus joined New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams and outgoing Iowa Senator Harold Hughes as an admitted problem drinker. The Arkansas Congressman has received counseling from Alcoholics Anonymous in the hospital, and he vows total abstinence in the future. Said he: "I have been a sick man who did not understand the nature of the illness...
Next year promises to be a very good one for the American wine drinker, whether he selects carefully by vintage or simply enjoys a good jug now and then. French wine prices have started to drop lately from their ridiculous highs as a result of buyer resistance and an oversupply after several bountiful harvests in a row. In Manhattan, for example, Chateau Lafite '59 is retailing for about $810 a case, down from a peak of $1,600 last year. But the best news for oenophiles is that the California wine industry has also become the victim of overexpansion...
...author is a sports nut now edging toward 50. He grew up in fashionable Merion, Pa., member of a distinguished, divided and furiously competitive clan. His mother, Historian Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus), apparently never lost at any sport. Bowen dreamed of becoming a triple-threat back at Princeton but became a pedestrian first baseman at Amherst, then an editor in New York. Years passed. Sports stars grew younger. Bowen grew older. Came the day when he could no longer take comfort even from the presence on the sporting scene of elderly prizefighters like Archie Moore, or the ageless...
...salvation-was a trucker's idea. It was founded by a Canadian, James W. ("Chaplain Jim") Keys, now 43. Keys, who had driven out of Toronto from the age of 13, was a veteran of a trucker's pleasures. "I wasn't such a great drinker," he says, "but women were a source of evil for me." He had also narrowly escaped death from a flash fire while fueling trucks. "At the ripe old age of 20, I was coming apart." A chance visit to a Toronto church service led to three nights of prayer...