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...continues to double every ten months. So far, 73% of those stricken by the disease have been homosexual or bisexual men, 17% intravenous drug users and 1% hemophiliacs. But the rest of the victims are people from all walks of life, contaminated perhaps through blood transfusions or through sexual contact with infected prostitutes, addicts and others. "This is not really a disease of homosexuality at all," says Dr. Alexandra Levine of the University of Southern California. "It is spread by sexual contact of any kind--homosexual or heterosexual. This is a disease...
...gentlemen's sports" of golf, tennis and yachting all moved smartly out of the summer pleasure domes of the upper class during the past four decades. But polo, the world's toniest contact sport, remained haughtily and expensively cloistered. No more. On weekend afternoons around the country, crowds of tailgating fans show up to watch scores of horses thunder across neatly turfed ten-acre greenswards. Willow mallets whistle--pock--as high-charging riders smack a 4-oz. white wooden ball. Brooks Fire-stone, 49, of the tire Firestones, reports, "It's no longer a social, rich man's game...
...urge you to resume contact with me so that we can come to some understanding about your activities,” she added...
...March 24 e-mail to Gould-Wartofsky, Kidd wrote that Jessica L. Tibbits, the administrative coordinator for student activities, “will contact you to find a time for us to meet after spring break...
Third, they effectively made contact with the public throughout the campaign. News articles and op-eds ran continually on the movement and the debate. Coalition-building by way of outreach to student groups ensured that the members of those groups also engaged. Inboxes were flooded. Because of this PR onslaught, it’s likely that few people remained ignorant of the movement’s presence and goal...