Word: johnson
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...exactly a veteran of San Juan Hill. But he has been around politics long enough to know that punditry and polls are no substitute for old-fashioned reporting. A native New Yorker who began as a city hall reporter for the now defunct Herald Tribune, Barrett covered the Johnson Administration before joining TIME as a writer in 1965. After a stint as an editor, Barrett covered the White House during the Carter and Reagan years. He drew on his work for a 1983 book, Gambling with History, that described the dawn of the Reagan Administration. Says he: "Being able...
...strengthened by prejudice and denial, has whipsawed the public response to AIDS -- from early dismissal to doomsday and back again -- ever since the epidemic began seven years ago. Last week, in a sensationalistic book guaranteed to punch panic buttons across the nation, Sex Therapists Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson triggered an uproar in the scientific community. Contrary to accepted wisdom and to all that is so far known by medicine, they claim the "AIDS virus is now running rampant in the heterosexual community" and can be transmitted through casual contact. Says Masters: "We are sounding an important warning...
Reaction from AIDS experts has ranged from "drivel" to "hogwash." U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop promptly called the work "irresponsible" and accused Masters and Johnson of "scare tactics." "There are no scientific data to support these alarming statements," warned Dr. Stephen Joseph, New York City's health commissioner. "They pile their statements, each holding a thin layer of established fact, on top of one another like slices of bologna." Many criticized the trio for first publishing their findings in a mass-market book, which was excerpted last week in Newsweek, instead of in a scientific journal where their data...
Despite this optimism, he said he worries about "misinformation" such as the recent Masters and Johnson report which suggested that contaminated people can transmit AIDS through casual social contact...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Stephen Koepp, Jacob V. Lamar, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, J. D. Reed, Thomas A. Sancton, Jill Smolowe, Richard Stengel, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...