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Squalid conditions, poverty and a semitropical environment may also play a role in the high rate of AIDS in Haiti and, oddly enough, in parts of southeastern Florida. Belle Glade (pop. 19,000), Fla., with 46 cases, has the highest incidence in the U.S. "There is raw sewage on the ground and rats running all around," says Dr. Mark Whiteside of Miami's Tropical Medicine Clinic. Filth, insects and a high rate of tuberculosis, he suggests, might contribute to the epidemic...
...longtime Navy friend, "cryptographic key lists and key cards" that were later sold to Soviet agents. Such keys would allow the Soviets to eavesdrop on coded Navy communications, and even, in the opinion of one communications expert, to change Navy messages for their own deceptive purposes. Holding the highest security clearances, Whitworth had been in charge of cryptographic centers on the carrier Enterprise and at the sprawling Alameda Naval Air Station...
...fees paid to big names are a powerful inspiration. Bob Hope commands the highest price: $40,000 a speech. Radio Personality Paul Harvey pulls down $25,000. Jeane Kirkpatrick doubled her fee to $20,000 after she became a Republican. Seer Jeane Dixon can conjure up $7,000 but donates all fees to charity. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger goes for $18,000; his former boss, Richard Nixon, could command $25,000 but speaks for free. "The fees," says Speaker Agent Carleton Sedgeley, "simply follow the laws of supply and demand...
...demand, and salaries inevitably rose. True deliverance came two years later, when players won freedom from the so-called reserve clause that tied them to one team for as long as the owner wanted them. Now players with six years' experience could in a sense sell themselves to the highest bidder. The combination of arbitration and free agency sent salaries spiraling sevenfold in less than a decade, from an average of $44,000 in 1975 to more than $360,000 this year...
...life I ever had room service. Vada bought breakfast. It was $12.75." His store of figures charms most people but bothers a few. On the last day of Rose's rookie season, Stan Musial scratched a single to each side of him and retired with 3,630 hits, the highest total in the 88-year history of the National League. Eighteen seasons later, Rose still fretted for those bouncing balls, considering them two hits he might not have had to get to pass Musial...