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...Legionnaire's disease, renewed old medical contacts last week, spending two days in Washington with experts at the National Institutes of Health. San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson, reporting his third TIME story on AIDS in ten months, visited bars and restaurants in the "Castro," the city's largest homosexual district, interviewing employees and customers about the life-style changes brought on by fear of AIDS. He also visited patients and staff members at San Francisco General Hospital's AIDS clinic. Says Thompson: "For all the anguish and tragedy any new disease inflicts, there is always the possibility...
...unrelated development, the Selective Service gave the Justice Department the names of 70,000 non-registrants for prosecution. The list is the largest handed over since the Justice Department began actively prosecuting non-registrants over a year...
...June of the third year, and millionaires once again are at play on the high seas off Newport, R.I., a harbor town that smells strongly of salt water and money, the yachtsman's favorite aromas. Seven small navies have arrived from five stubborn countries, the largest assault force in 132 years, and are fighting it out among themselves for the right to challenge for the America's Cup, a symbol of U.S. ingenuity, or treachery, or both, that is bolted snugly, smugly, or both, to a heavy oak slab in the West 44th Street rumpus room...
...ultra-Orthodox Jews have a birth rate that is three times the national average, and they also constitute the largest group moving into Jerusalem. As a result, they have been trying to take over areas near the overcrowded Mea Shearim and Geula sections, offering twice the market value to entice secular Israelis to sell their homes and threatening those who refuse to move. At least one family has been burned...
Last week the fragile market cracked. Reacting to news that Texas Instruments, suffering from disappointing hardware and software sales, had predicted a $100 million loss in its current quarter, Wall Street turned negative on the company's stock. Shares of TI, one of the world's largest manufacturers of silicon chips, dropped 40 points in one day, trimming nearly $1 billion from the company's paper value. On the heels of Atari's multimillion-dollar loss last quarter, it looked as if one segment of the computer revolution was wobbling...