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...routinely set up "sobriety checkpoints," stopping cars to check for drunk drivers. Maryland has a program encouraging CB operators to call in reports on drunk drivers. Since July 1982, more than 20,000 such reports have yielded almost ( 3,000 drunk-driving arrests. Says Kent Milton of the California highway patrol: "The problem is still enormous. It's a gigantic ocean with a lot of fish and very few fishermen...
...laws or legal precedents holding servers of alcohol responsible for the acts of drunks. Happy hours, banned or restricted in 15 states so far, seem to be on the way out everywhere. And all states must raise their minimum drinking age to 21 by 1987 or risk losing federal highway funds. Even the insurance industry is now effectively part of the lobby against drinking and driving. Like many other groups, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council in Denver had to cancel a party this year because no insurance was available if beer was sold to raise funds. "High court awards...
...works, plays and socializes. New attitudes toward careers, fitness and the very image of what we are and wish to become are being altered. Americans are tackling the entrenched social problems of abusive drinking with a new rigor. The neotemperance has already inspired tough drunk-driving laws to combat highway bloodshed (see following story). Basic to it all: people are drinking lighter and drinking less, and seem to be proud of it. A new poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., showed that only 67% of the nation's 170 million adults over 18 said that they drank...
Founded after the Civil War by a Union general as a refined refuge for the well-heeled, Colorado Springs (pop. 259,000) has long enticed tourists with attractions like Pikes Peak Highway and the elegant Broadmoor Hotel. But in more recent years it has become a magnet for military installations. To the east of the city is Peterson Air Force Base; to the north is the U.S. Air Force Academy; to the south is the Army's Fort Carson; and buried deep in Cheyenne Mountain to the southwest, shielded behind 25-ton doors, is the North American Aerospace Defense Command...
...glaring sunstorm boiled the fewest Louisville customers in 15 years (down almost 20,000 to about 108,000, mostly a matter of ticket prices' doubling) and baked the dirt track until the word blew about the backstretch shed rows like a whisper on a breeze: "It's Highway I-65 out there." That cinched what had been the popular wisdom all week. This race would turn on the two speedballs in the field of 13: Spend A Buck and Eternal Prince. Should both dart out ahead, might they form a suicide pact? "Sure, they could kill each other," Jockey Angel...