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...those who are susceptible, U.S. society offers powerful temptations. Ob serves NIAAA'S Morris Chafetz: "There are houses where they don't even say anything to you when you come in the door before they ask, 'What will you have to drink?' " He also notes that "in our crazy-quilt value system, masculinity means that if you can hold a lot of alcohol and seemingly not show its effects, that's somehow a sign of strength." Chafetz points out that in some other countries-Italy and Israel, for example -drinking is an accepted social custom...
TYUMEN, a province in western Siberia where the first rich find of gas and oil was discovered, lies at the southern edge of a vast field stretching 1,000 miles down the Ob River. Its oil production, which has doubled every year since 1965, is expected to hit 130 million tons by 1975, comparable to half of Saudi Arabia's output. A spur from the Trans-Siberian Railroad has been completed between the provincial capital of Tyumen and Tobolsk-both sleepy towns become boom cities-and is being extended 300 miles northward to Surgut...
...treated everyone as a minority of one," explained one sailor. Oberg had a way of sympathizing with the crew even when passing out an unpopular order, like the frequent extensions to the ship's tour of duty off the coast of Viet Nam. Recalled one crew member: "Ob would say, 'Hey, we're going back and we can't do anything about it.' He was cool. You knew there was a guy up there who knew you were alive...
...Crone QB 11 Mark Wheeler RH 45 Ted DeMars LH 16 Rod Foster FB OFFENSIVE No. Name Position 46 Paul Sortal SE 75 Al Moras LT 65 Ken Burkus LG 52 Ray Riddick C 60 Randy Burnworth RG 72 Len Matriociani RT 85 Kim Hammerberg TE 15 Tom Doyle OB 40 Dick Jauron LHB 38 Rudy Green RHB 26 Tyrell Hennings...
...tobacco state to the vote-pull-ing strength of Richard Nixon. A youngish (38), G.O.P. moderate who has been notably liberal on racial matters, Holshouser also had some campaign assets of his own, among them a record as a can-do state legislator and an endorsement from the Charlotte Ob- server. But he was outspent 2-to-1 by Democrat Hargrove ("Skipper") Bowles Jr., 52, an ebullient millionaire businessman who lavished $1.3 million on a slick statewide media campaign. Not even Bowies' G.O.P.-scale spending, or the Democrats' 3-to-l edge in voter registrations, could stem...