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There are more drinkers in the city (87%), where bars stud every downtown block, than in the country (43%); more of them along the Northeastern seaboard (83%), which takes a certain pride in sophistication, than in any other section of the country. The South has the oddest regional attitude about drinking. Kentucky is practically the capital of the bourbon country, but it also forbids the sale of alcohol in four counties out of five. Widely blanketed by local prohibition laws, the South teems not only with "brown bag" joints, to which the patron brings his own bottle in a paper...
...Harvard rebounded from a loss to Army by defeating the middies 57-38, but this year things could be different. Navy has most of last year's team returning and Harvard Coach Bill Brooks figures they have a good chance to finish in the top three of the Eastern Seaboard League. Last year Navy finished sixth with a 3-5 record. Harvard was not much better, ending the season with a 4-4 record in fifth place...
Murphy, a junior who won the Eastern Seaboard three-meter diving event last year, outclassed the Springfield divers, winning in championship style. His dives of 2.7 and 2.8 difficulty won marks of seven and eight from the judges and loud applause from the awed crowd...
Shrout, one of the top sprinters in the league, swims five events as well as two relays well enough to give strong competition in any of them. Last year at the Eastern Seaboard Meet he broke the Harvard record for the 200-yard freestyle event with a time of 1:47.8. In the Yale meet he was just edged by the famed Don Schollander in the 50-yard freestyle event. Brooks says Shrout is a leading contender for the 1968 Olympic team...
Murphy, who won the Eastern Seaboard Meet in the three-meter event and qualified for the NCAA's is back this year looking better than ever. He was the only Harvard team member to make the All-Ivy swimming team last year. Brooks calls him the finest diver in the Eastern League...