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...Hudson and the effects of the crisis on the homosexual community. "Often, a specter of death seems to hang around the victims," she notes. Therefore she was shocked to hear that a business acquaintance had died of AIDS two months after she had praised him "for looking fit and trim." Assessing the potential for heterosexual transmission is complicated by the virus' long incubation period. "What we don't know is exactly how this virus works and how it will affect the population ten years from now," Smilgis says. "There are many unknowns. That's very scary...
J.F.K. signaled his intention in 1960 when he had his hair cut back. Thereafter he drove the Senate barbers wild with his persnickety instructions for a presidential trim. He ordered Frances Fox's special amber hair tonic rubbed into his dome daily on the campaign trail. He refused to wear a hat lest the felt crush his coif...
Last month's decision by West Germany's central bank to trim the discount rate that it charges to banks from 3.5% to 3% was hailed as a much needed step to take pressure off the mark and boost domestic German consumption. Some of TIME's economists, though, argued that a further relaxation of West German monetary policy is still needed. "The Bundesbank's action was too late and not sufficient," complained Mast...
...such restructuring takes place, Europe is unlikely to make substantial progress against its chronic unemployment problem. Though some countries will show a slight improvement this year, the overall European jobless rate could remain stuck at 11%. The prognosis for a swift cure is bleak because manufacturers are continuing to trim their work forces as a way of containing costs and boosting productivity...
Terrence Peter Jackson lived quietly in a small rented house in Eugene and worked as a physical therapist for a local hospital. But when the FBI came to his door last week, Jackson admitted to being Silas Trim Bissell, 44, one of the founders of the violent Weather Underground movement and a fugitive since 1970, when he skipped bail on charges of conspiring to bomb a Reserve Officer Training Center in Seattle...