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...high-school-aged son of an alcoholic, Alateen now numbers 65 chapters in the U.S., three in Canada, two in Australia; 50 more are being organized in the U.S. Membership in each group averages ten boys and girls whose adolescence is scarred, often literally, by an alcoholic parent. The youngsters range from 12 to 20, operate under the general guidance of Al-Anon, an older and larger offshoot for adults (wives, friends and relatives) of Alcoholics Anonymous. Like Al-Anon and AA, the teen-agers address each other by first names only, promise not to reveal one another...
Auer, 44, has long been active in civic and educational affairs. He has served as president of the Bronxville, N.Y. community fund, a trustee of the Taft School, president of the Bronxville, N.Y. Parent-Teacher Association, and is director and vice president of the New York State Citizens Committee for the Public Schools. Auer and his wife Carol are active in sports (tennis, skiing, swimming) and the parents of three children...
...economic advantage: the sand dollar's eggs respond to minute amounts of drugs which are often scarce and expensive. Also, the sand dollar belies its name-its eggs cost nothing but the effort of collecting parent stock at Mount Desert, Me., where Dr. Karnofsky did his work...
...they were hardly calculated to please Norman Chandler. A man with a strong sense of empire and dynasty,* his action in stepping aside for his son Otis was a characteristic way of readying the Times for whatever the future may hold (he will stay on as president of the parent Los Angeles Times-Mirror Co., which also controls the ailing afternoon Mirror-News...
...plan to lay down a 1,400-mile pipeline to carry 458.7 million cubic feet daily to its California parent, the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Under the two other licenses, Canadian gas would flow to markets in Montana and the Northwest...