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JOHN KENNETH Galbraith tells the story of a drunken student who plunged to his death from a Winthrop House suite in the 1930s. Evidently such incidents are of inordinate concern to Harvard housemasters, who last week took what might be the first step toward bringing back the good-old-days of curfews...
...decided last week to assign 300 police officers to control the boisterous October 18 event--traditionally attended, according to Northeastern Coach Buzz Congram, by "drunken stumblebums...
According to the student who was punished forbreaking the window, he and his three companionshurled the oranges with a slingshot from the NorthHouse breezeway following a drunken snowball fightin the Quad...
...such an atmosphere, corruption thrives. One prosperous bazaari, who lives in a villa on a tree-lined street above the center of Tehran, says he can still bribe a policeman when the officer stops him late at night in his Mercedes-Benz for drunken driving. A diplomat discloses that he pays off local police before giving a dinner party and afterward finds them in his kitchen dining on the leftovers and drinking his vodka...
...Connecticut, the department of correction is experimentally using two National Guard barracks as a temporary jail for drunken drivers. In Missouri and Oregon, prison authorities have renovated mental hospitals to house convicted felons. In New Jersey, where inmates have been sleeping in gymnasiums, classrooms and a chapel, officials are considering buying a World War II Navy troopship to use as a prison. Meanwhile, New York City is readying a second decommissioned Staten Island ferryboat to moor alongside the Vernon C. Bain, which has housed up to 162 prisoners on the East River since March...