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...foundering local UHF television station. In 1976 he started bouncing its signals off a satellite to cable-TV systems across the U.S. The result: Super-Station WTBS, which now reaches some 34 million viewers and last year earned profits of $65.8 million on sales of $177.4 million. The Atlanta dynamo also owns the local Braves baseball club and most of the Hawks basketball team. Both teams have respectable records but do not make any profits...
...raucous, tobacco-chewing, beer-swigging good ole boy. A yachtsman who defended the America's Cup in 1977 and won the title Captain Outrageous, Turner showed up at a victory press conference roaring drunk and tugging at a bottle of aquavit. During a conference on arms control in Atlanta early this month, Turner dined with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. When the conversation began to bore Turner, he produced a tiny TV from his pocket, set the device on the table and proceeded to watch a Braves game...
...much been learned about an entirely new disease in so short a time," pronounced Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler last week at the opening session of the most comprehensive conference yet held on the fearful subject of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The AIDS conference, jointly sponsored in Atlanta by the World Health Organization and HHS, drew more than 2,000 researchers, health officials, gay activists and others from points as distant as Zaïre. As they swapped information in a blizzard of presentations, pamphlets and informal corridor exchanges, the dimensions and nature of the devastating disease came into sharper...
...Americans have contracted AIDS, says Dr. James Curran, director of the AIDS task force at Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, and he adds, "It'll get worse." CDC officials expect the number to double by this time next year. The epidemic is spreading worldwide. W.H.O. officials report that Paris has almost the same incidence as Los Angeles. The vast majority of AIDS cases--about 73% in the U.S.--have occurred in homosexual or bisexual men. Researchers think that the virus can remain latent for years before causing symptoms, so that people infected five or more years ago may still...
...brighter note, casual contact with AIDS victims, even over long periods of time, seems relatively safe. Newark Pediatrician James Oleske studied the foster families of nine newborns infected with AIDS and found that none of the foster mothers or siblings showed any signs of infection. Other research presented in Atlanta offered an intriguing clue to the mystery of how AIDS began. Dr. Myron Essex of the Harvard School of Public Health believes that the virus may have originated in a species known as the African green monkey and spread to humans only in recent decades. Essex has found that about...