Word: hysterias
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Like Kennedy, thousands of Americans believe they are victims of a stealthy epidemic that is draining their physical strength and mental energy. Initially, physicians attributed the mysterious affliction, which often strikes clusters of people, to a mixture of depression, hypochondria and mass hysteria. It has been called the yuppie disease -- because a disproportionate ) number of its victims have been young, white professionals -- chronic mononucleosis or, simply, fatigue syndrome. Hollywood is rumored to be plagued by the disease. Film Director Blake Edwards struggled with it for three years. "Your body starts to collapse," he says. "It was a matter of hell...
...began last October. Until that month, President Ronald Reagan had been flying high. After playing upon that summer's drug hysteria the way a Horowitz plays upon a Steinway--only to fail to come through with the money or resources to actually do something about substance abuse--the President reaped the benefits of a popular tax reform bill with which he had little to do and, in fact, the concept of which he long had opposed. Then, during the first week of October, the cargo plane of one Eugene Hasenfus, an American mercenary, was shot down inside Nicaragua trying...
...intravenous drug users and their sexual partners. But with the gay community now well organized to fight AIDS, the rate of infection among homosexuals appears to be declining. The CDC's Jaffe does not want the public to decrease its vigilance, but he would like to mute the hysteria. AIDS, he says, "is a fairly discrete problem . . . Why it isn't getting out beyond the immediate sexual partners of risk-group members, I don't know. Is the disease going to sweep into the heterosexual population, like Africa...
...President decides on a policy of "routine" tests, while health workers fear that hysteria over the epidemic ignores its most likely victims. -- Reagan declares that the U. S. will keep the Persian Gulf open, but the details remain foggy. -- The Iran- contra hearings produce charges of profiteering among the patriots. -- Hugh Sidey discovers that he was "cut off" by Richard Nixon...
...major universities. At Bell Labs, a team led by Bertram Batlogg and Ceramist Cava had launched their own program of alchemical tinkering. Soon they had manufactured a similar compound that became a superconductor at 38 K, one- upping their archrivals at IBM. "That's when the hysteria started," says Cava. "The place was abuzz with excitement...