Youth: Teen-Age Nightclubs

"There are years more before I can go anyplace fun," said San Francisco High School Senior Claudia French as she marked her 17th birthday. For many a U.S. teenager, the task of finding nighttime amusement that will meet with the approval of parents and the law is a similarly doleful problem. The nightspots that serve food and nonalcoholic drinks usually lack the entertainment or dance floor that teen-agers look for. Those that have such features usually serve liquor, which is forbidden to the under-21 crowd by law in 47 states* and by...