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...watch yourself so closely," says Frank Folino, a legal secretary who has seen many of his friends in Chicago die of AIDS. "If you find a little spot that may just be a bruise, or if you get a cold, you wonder: Is this it?" For gay men, it is not just a question they ask themselves. For most of them, even that large conservative percentage that never enjoyed fast-track, promiscuous sex, it is the overriding issue of their lives. They are in the middle of a war, fighting not only the disease but also their fear...
...which is the taking of multiple partners; some still patronize bathhouses for brief, anonymous encounters. "Quite honestly, I'm dismayed," says Miami's Dr. Allan J. Stein, a family physician whose patient load is 30% gay. "I've been trying for three years to talk to these people. I wonder: Am 'I doing my job right? Maybe I should have yelled." Says Jeremy Landau, project coordinator of a counseling center in San Francisco: "Let's face it. Some people just don't find safe sex exciting...
Readers of these books may wonder why anyone should care about the chief executives and movie stars who get sweaty palms every time they undertake a new task. The answer, according to Clance and Harvey, is that IP fears can trigger illness and debilitating emotional trauma in sufferers, and cause additional problems for others who depend upon them. Consider, for example, the hyped-up physician who told Clance about his long battle to keep his fears under control. "It was wearing me out pretending to be a doctor," he confided. He eventually realized that his unfounded obsession with imminent failure...
...wonder, then, that the fans were loudly unsympathetic when the athletes' union went on strike last week. "The players are greedy," groused St. Louis Cardinal Rooter Greg Errion. "They have no regard for the fans. It's 'What can I get for me today?' The luster of ballplayers as American heroes has dulled." Nor did the fans feel very sorry for the owners, who, despite their poor-mouthing, toss about millions of dollars, largely, it sometimes seems, for the privilege of hanging about their employees' locker room...
...true generation, and has had to hustle almost a quarter of a century to rejoin a gang of bronze men just like him. "Wagner, Speaker, Musial, Aaron--Ty Cobb." He rattles off the last of the stops he has been hurrying past for years. "Ty Cobb," he says with, wonder. Rose's ten-month-old son is named Tyler only because Carol, his second wife, would not approve Tyrus, though he lobbied passionately. "If I was chasing Schmedley Milton, now that would be one thing," Rose says reasonably. "I would never have named my kid Schmedley. But Ty Rose, there...