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Another key factor in the transmission of the disease is the unwillingness of many heterosexual men to change their sexual practices. "We tell people this disease is caused by sexual intercourse and they laugh," says Louis Ochero, who heads Uganda's AIDS education program. "They say, 'But we've been having that for years and never got such a thing.' " Nor has the American boom in the use of condoms yet taken hold among most Africans. "Condoms here are regarded as something dirty," says Ochero, "something you use on harlots." The resistance extends into elite circles. A frank lecture last...
...first it seems a bizarre coincidence. The fellow represented here in correspondence with the late crime novelist John D. MacDonald has the same name as Dan Rowan the comedian, half of the team of Rowan and Martin, co-star of TV's red-hot Laugh-In series of the late '60s and early '70s. In fact, he is that Dan Rowan. But before we ask what he is doing in such bookish company, it should be noted that he put in his time as a comedy writer, and that he knocks out a sharper, shrewder letter than one would ever...
...josh heartily. They are put in touch by a mutual friend, the wife of Novelist Erskine Caldwell. Before long MacDonald is asking Rowan's guidance on film and TV deals for his books; Rowan reciprocates by playing back studio goings-on for MacDonald's hard-boiled appraisal. When Laugh-In takes off, the novelist watches at home in Florida with a note pad at hand, sending Rowan comments and suggestions for new bits ("How about a TV interview where the lady interviewer does not realize that she is holding the wrong book and interviewing the wrong author"). Rowan enthusiastically forwards...
...tries to improve everything with the tools available: imagination, mischief, irony and the marvelous knowledge that the world is mad." Rowan seems to agree, agonizing about his struggles with producers and network honchos, his efforts to break up the partnership with Martin, and above all his disenchantment with Laugh-In (whose life cycle, he fears, "will be a death cycle"). But in the end, he rides with...
...faking a man-to-man coverage and I'd be saying to myself, 'I hope he believes it, I hope he believes it.' He'd chuckle just before the snap, and we'd all think, 'Good,' and switch to a zone." Conlan tried to restrain a laugh, not very hard. "For a week," he said, "all we heard was how great and fast their receivers were, and how short and slow our secondary was. Well, those little guys rocked them. That was the key to the game...