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...future hinges entirely on what an Alaskan jury decides took place on the night of March 23. Was Hazelwood drunk? He has admitted drinking just two beers over a five-hour period in the town of Valdez before boarding the ship. At least one barmate, Radio Electronics Officer Joel Roberson, contends that Hazelwood was drinking a "clear" beverage that was probably vodka. Still, his companions agree that Hazelwood did not consume an excessive amount of alcohol while ashore...
Like other addicts, birders can let their work slip. Don Roberson, a well- known California birder, dropped his law practice at the age of 29 to follow the birds, though he has since relapsed and returned to work. Like ski bums, some talented young birders take low-level jobs as clerks or night watchmen, thus saving their major energies for the chase...
Sometimes, like Goetz, these potential victims make headlines by lashing out at their tormentors. When Laird Roy Roberson, 29, looked out of his Houston apartment window at 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 23 and saw two men and a woman trying to break into his car, he picked up a .22-cal. rifle and fired seven shots, killing Darrel York, 18, and wounding Jerome Marshall, 19. A grand jury decided that Roberson had committed no crime...
...sober attitude toward higher education. A year's average tuition and room and board at a private college costs about $3,200; at many schools the total is close to $5,000. "One of the first things the students do is look for part-tune jobs," says Eileen Roberson, director of student employment at Simmons College in Boston. Among the most common jobs: waiting on table, manning switchboards and doing research for professors...
...American Football League has Pete Gogolak of Cornell, whose soccer-style kicking helped carry the Buffalo Bills to the league championship last season, flanker Bo Roberson, also of Cornell and the Bills, Dartmouth's Don McKinnon, a linebacker for the Boston Patriots, and Cosmo Iacavazzi, who is bouncing on and off the New York Jets' roster after smashing a bookful of rushing records for Princeton...