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...sooner did the report appear than the CDC began hearing from doctors in San Francisco and New York City, who were also seeing PCP in young homosexual men. And that was not all they were seeing. Many of the patients bore the purplish lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that in this country is usually found only in elderly men of Mediterranean extraction. They had other infections as well: Candida albicans, a fungus that cakes the mouth and throat, making it difficult and painful to speak or eat; herpes, not just the garden variety of sores...
...memoirs are a valuable contribution to 20th century demonology. Unfortunately for Wagener, fate continues to be unkind. His book drags him from the mercy of oblivion to play the part of history's fool. The Hitler he intended to re-create is not a tragic hero but a monumental bore. Gaseous generalizations and crackpot theories pour forth Like beer at an Oktoberfest. He thrills to something called the Odic force, "power rays" that flow from healthy bodies. He invokes Einstein's mathematics to justify his own mystical yearnings and "inner vibrations." He attempts to cross socialism with Darwin. He sees...
...centerpieces being the awarding of World Series rings and the hoisting of the World Champs banner. In short centerfield several musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops were arrayed, and to kick things off they played some Fens faves like "Sweet Caroline." Then the rings were bore in from left field by wounded members of the military-real heroes, not the baseball kind. Later, after receiving his ring, Trot Nixon would make sure to go down the line in right and shake the hand of each of these men and women-one of the many small grace...
...after two more singles in the third inning, the Crimson managed only one hit the rest of the way as Daly bore down...
With Harvard behind 6-0, Vance and Wallace opened the inning with matching singles, and a walk to Klimkiewicz loaded the bases with one out. But Doyle bore down again, striking out Mann and getting Herrmann to ground into an inning-ending forceout...