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...most likely way that the virus can be passed from one person to another. Condom machines, once considered almost laughable among homosexuals, have been installed in the rest rooms of many gay bars and restaurants. "Straights learned about birth control, and gays have to learn about safe sex," says Jim Brennan, an AIDS social worker in Washington...
...plays cut-rate Rambos, to a quirky but oddly compelling segment about the recipient of the heart of Jon-Erik Hexum, a TV hunk who died after accidentally shooting himself last year. Another episode deals with the daughter of Leo Ryan, the California Congressman whose investigation of the Jim Jones cult in Guyana in 1978 led to Ryan's murder and the ensuing mass suicides. Today Ryan's daughter is a follower of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, an Indian mystic whose armed compound in Oregon has attracted national headlines...
Every great athlete fascinates Rose. Once he used to sit up all night in the car listening to West Coast games; now he keeps his satellite dish as hot as a wok. He peppers his discourses on his own records with Richie Allen's homers and Jim Bunning's shutouts. Rose is no more self-centered than a fried egg. "Sometimes I get the feeling that everyone thinks I spend all of my time working out statistics," he says defensively. As a matter of fact, First Wife Karolyn testifies, "There never was a morning when I didn't see Pete...
...Jim Thorpe, a touring pro since 1975 who had never won but had finished second three times, was assured the $90,000 first prize even before he made a putt to force a playoff with Verplank. The kid was only eligible to play for a trophy. In a grill at Boston's Logan Airport, where a television set was tuned to the Western Open, senior golfers who had been completing their own competition in nearby Concord trickled in from the final round. One greeted the other who hailed the next. "Come look at this, the kid's got a chance...
...brighten the opening two games in Kansas City, both in the field and at bat. Though outpitched twice, St. Louis won 3-1 and 4-2. In the second game, poor Charlie Leibrandt would have thrown a three-hitter to level the Series for the Royals if only Catcher Jim Sundberg or First Baseman Steve Balboni had overtaken a foul pop-up just beside the dugout. The spitting image of Archie Bunker's meathead son-in-law, Balboni wears a particular expression of impending disaster...