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...carrier, the opposite sex in general and the medical profession. Says a Los Angeles woman: "When I first got it, I wanted to pass it on to everyone for vengeance until everyone had it and it became normal." Some people act out their fantasies of revenge. A Midwestern woman says she has infected 75 men in three years. Says a Philadelphia man who brags that he infected 20 women: "They were just one-night stands, so they deserved it anyway...
...video screen the weather service's national data, presses a button that superimposes more detailed readings from nearby observation posts and presses another key that zooms in on his state or county for an up-to-date rundown of the local weather. Some weathermen remain skeptical, as one Midwestern forecaster puts it, as to "whether AFOS computers will actually improve forecasts or give bad forecasts more frequently." But NWS Director Richard Hallgren has no such doubts. "The larger the computer, the better the forecast," he says. "As the computer gets bigger, we can get more of the mathematics...
...Angeles and its suburbs have gone west, all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The movie stars, the affluent and much of the industry have moved along with them to Beverly Hills and Malibu. Left behind is the shell-streets still hugged by low buildings, as in some abandoned Midwestern downtown. Yet, even today, the name Hollywood retains its mystical appeal. In a sense the name and the place diverged long ago-the name symbolic of faded glamour; the place filled with the shiftless, the criminal and the crazy...
MINNESOTA. The only retiring Midwestern Republican who faced a clear possibility of defeat this year, Albert Quie, 58, a staunch but low-key Reagan backer, has seen Minnesota's budget drop from a $292 million surplus in 1979 to a deficit that is expected to reach $800 million by summer. This happened even though Quie, who campaigned on a promise to cut taxes in a state many thought was recession-proof, was eventually forced to reverse himself and raise them as the economy faltered. Quie's popularity plunged. As his campaign manager quaintly put it, the Governor decided...
...Contending for the Democratic nomination are former State Legislator Anthony Earl and James Wood, director of the Center for Public Policy in Madison. More significant: so far, no Republicans have stepped forward for the job. That single fact seems to sum up the sense of dismay being felt among Midwestern Republicans, caught between stubborn economic problems and growing worries about Democratic victories at the polls come November. Jimmy Carter's pollster, Pat Caddell, is not exactly a disinterested observer. But privately, many Republican politicians agree with Caddell's tough assessment that the G.O.P. could get slaughtered politically: "Their...