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College-graduate drinkers in the U.S. vastly outnumber those whose formal education has stopped at the grade-school level (80% to 53%), and there are more well-to-do drinkers than poor: it takes money to drink. The average drinker is more likely to be a Roman Catholic than a Protestant. One reason is that many Protestant faiths, notably the Baptists and the Methodists, traditionally forbade drinking. The George Washington University survey classified 56% of all drinkers as moderate, only 12% as immoderate...
...district, represented for 15 years by the late J. Arthur Younger, a conservative Republican, is in a state of demographic flux. Though the sunny "peninsula," as San Mateo County is called, is populated largely by well-to-do, conservative-leaning commuters to San Francisco, nearby Stanford University exerts a liberalizing influence, and subdivisions have attracted a big influx of blue-collar workers...
...Bland" is the word usually used to describe Boston's Mayor-elect. He looks like most any other well-to-do State Street lawyer. The people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room don't turn their heads when he walks in. (It must be admitted that the people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room turn their heads for very few people.) He hardly attracted any attention last summer when he would hop into the Clarendon Street Brigham's for coffee before spending the morning at his Back Bay headquarters. And his voice lacked the resonance or depth that one expects...
Robert Strange McNamara is somewhat the epitome of the University cool-liberal. He went to Berkeley and then to Harvard. He taught at Ann Arbor. He recites Yeats. He led a movement to abolish ROTC as a student. He is well-to-do. He has a computer-brain. He is cool and aloof. Robert Strange McNamara, the Secretary of Defense, was looking out of the window of his Pentagon office, watching the confrontation below last Saturday. Maybe he was wondering what his liberal brain was thinking...
...poor as the target and suggested that some states might make abortion easier to reduce the wel fare rolls. Young complained that the poor were discriminated against in that they could not obtain costly but safe abortions in the U.S. or travel abroad for them as can the well...