Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House voted Monday to raise the drinking age to 19 and the age for purchase of packaged liquor to 21. It nullified that vote Wednesday when it decided to phase in the drinking age to 21 over a two-year period for all alcohol consumption...
...biggest selling alcoholic beverages yesterday were champagne and white wine, a liquor salesman at Sage's Market said yesterday. "American girls can't handle red wine, even if it is Valentine's Day," he said...
...important to new Gov. Edward J. King, who campaigned on a platform of law-and-order politics. If the drinking age must go up, then it should be raised only to age 19. At age 18, high school students are too young to be able to buy liquor, either for themselves or for even younger classmates...
Raising the legal drinking age any higher seems pointless and may in fact aggravate the problems which the new legislation is attempting to address. All five neighboring states now have an 18-year-old drinking age, and teenagers would be able to get liquor elsewhere, simply by driving over the border. Drinking would move into back alleys and front seats. In addition, the proposed law would exceed its stated intent of removing alcohol from the school yards by discriminating against the thousands of students attending Massachusetts colleges...
...second proposal suggests raising the drinking age to 19 for consumption of alcohol in restaurants and bars and to 21 for purchase of packaged liquor...