Word: gerald
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...movement. "AIDS has been a dramatic political education for a lot of gay men who never understood why we were bothering with activism," says Jeff Levi, political director of the National Gay Task Force. "We will emerge from this strengthened, even if weakened in numbers." --By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Jon D. Hull/San Francisco and Arturo Yáñez/New York
...fairway he observes the links style of most Presidents since Eisenhower. When Ike met Hope in wartime Algiers, the general's first words were "How's your golf?" The athletic J.F.K. was too "restless" to play well, and Richard Nixon displayed a strange combination of obsession and guilelessness. Gerald Ford, of course, "made golf a contact sport." Reagan "once broke 100 and that's pretty good for a man on horseback." Hope saves his real affection for celebrities little known for their low handicaps, including Humphrey Bogart and Ruby Keeler. The wildest amateur: Babe Ruth. The smoothest: Joe Louis. Even...
...want the whole world to love those crazy steps. "The tango is the star of the show," asserts Elvira Santa María, 56. "We've come to prevent it from dying." Judging from audiences' ecstatic reaction to those furious feet, it will have a long, if strenuous, life. --By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York
Democrats got their own back in Virginia, where they won a sweep of the races for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and attorney general. Governor-elect Gerald Baliles, a lackluster former attorney general, is a protégé of popular current Democratic Governor Chuck Robb, who was barred by law from another term. Some suggested that Baliles was simply a stand-in for Robb, Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law and a founder of the conservative Democratic Leadership Council...
...that will allow for greater flexibility and future expansion. The company will be split into four parts: autos, finance, technology and aerospace. An umbrella organization, headed by Iacocca, will oversee all operations and is expected to be set up as a holding company based in Manhattan. Chrysler Vice Chairman Gerald Greenwald, Iacocca's heir apparent, will become chairman of the automobile wing...