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New York Holds Line as Neighbor States Urge Higher Drinking Age
New York resists calls from New Jersey Connecticut Massachusetts and others to raise the drinking age from 18 to 21. Governors and civic groups press Rockefeller and the legislature, but New York shows little inclination to change its repeal-era policy.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New Jersey
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Vermont
Pennsylvania
John N. Dempsey
Richard J. Hughes
David L. Lawrence
Rockefeller
New England
F. Ray Keyser Jr
Pittsfield
Thomas Calnan
Falls
N.Y