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Many gay leaders rushed to discredit the 1% figure, pointing out that people are reluctant to discuss their most intimate sexual nature with a clipboard- bearing stranger, even in surveys like this one where the interviews were conducted face to face in the subject's home and with a guarantee of confidentiality. "People have good reason not to be honest about their homosexual behavior," says Frances Kunreuther, the executive director of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, the nation's largest social service agency for gay youth, "especially in a country where same-sex relations are illegal in 24 states...
...floor and begin moving in pairs to the 60's swing-favorite, "It's in His Kiss." According to judge Shawn Smith, the keys to this dance are timing and degree of enjoyment. Smith, an amateur dancer himself, stands at the edge of the dance floor and, holding his clipboard and detailed score-sheet, observes the motions of the couples, each pair labeled by letter...
...byzantine electoral laws and assure Perot a spot on the ballot, and another to cultivate grass-roots activities through November. One petition- drive worker in New York City who attended an orientation meeting received four follow-up phone calls confirming that she would actually hit the streets with a clipboard. Other statewide groups have been equally effective in marshaling support and finding their way through the legal thicket. Perot's California organization, which collected more than 1 million signatures to place him on the ballot, has drawn up a 26-page strategy manual on how to deploy volunteers and sent...
...other end of the computer spectrum were the new clipboard-style models designed to be operated with the flick of a pen. Why fumble with a keyboard or an electronic mouse when you can point and draw directly on your computer screen? The machines can even be taught to read your handwriting, provided you ever learn to make that scrawl legible...
...boyish-looking, sandy-haired native of the small east Tennessee town of Maryville forgets nothing. "If he ever met you, he'll remember you," says Haley. Alexander is an inveterate notetaker, scribbling reminders about all sorts of ideas and activities on clipboard pads or handy scraps of paper. On his sea voyage -- where he was writing Six Months Off, a memoir of stepping out of his professional life -- Alexander made a list of things to be accomplished each day and crossed them off each evening. "If he has a fault, it is that he is not much at having...