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...first reaction of administrators might be to beef up security around the edges of the field to keep people off the turf after games, like the Game, in which spectators might tear down the goalposts. But the problem is more complicated than that. Students in a state of drunken excitement probably would not be daunted by the increased force. In fact, the deployment of security personnel might add a violent dynamic to what in itself is a quite harmless way for frenzied students to let off steam...
Reagan and Shultz deliberately continued to play golf on Saturday, knowing that a sudden return to Washington would fuel speculation. Suddenly, in the afternoon, Reagan took a break for a bizarre reason: a drunken gunman wanting to see him had crashed his pickup truck through a golf course gate and held hostages in the club's pro shop. After trying in vain to talk to the man by telephone, Reagan was whisked back from the 16th hole to the Eisenhower cabin by heavily armed Secret Service agents...
SENTENCED. Truman Capote, 59, author (In Cold Blood) and sardonic, falsetto voice of the glitterati; to three years probation and a $500 fine for drunken driving; in Southampton, N.Y. Capote had been driving with an expired out-of-state license, and the Long Island judge barred him from applying for a New York State driver's license for six months. The judge also directed the writer to continue alcoholic counseling. Said Capote: "I pleaded guilty to this thing to get it out of the way, even though I know I wasn't drunk...
...widespread efforts to round up drunken drivers, more and more motorists are being confronted by a piece of law-enforcement technology called the blood-alcohol tester. Several companies are competing to fill the demand for these devices as police departments equip their officers for tactics like spot-check roadblocks...
...glass vial for a wet chemical test. The latest version of Smith & Wesson's $4,300 Breathalyzer measures the level of alcohol in a suspect's blood by projecting an infrared beam through a sample of breath blown into the machine. Massachusetts State Police, whose arrests for drunken driving in the past three months have increased 48% over last year, bought 35 of the new Breathalyzers in August...