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...reported to have grown especially thick coats in preparation for this winter. And Clark's Trained Bears in Lincoln, N.H. has said that the New England black bear showed signs of drowsiness at a very early date this fall. Nature skeptics need only consult this year's Farmer's Almanac to become convinced that a reversal of the recent warming trend is in store...
...Along with its surprisingly accurate long-range weather predictions and other distinctive features, the 156-year-old Farmers' Almanac has always carried a batch of snappy sayings that put down women. ("She's a human dynamo-charging everything." "Many a gal has made it to the top because her dress didn't.") This year, however, the ladies get a slightly better shake. Acting on a letter from a Maryland woman who complained about male chauvinism. Editor Ray Geiger has included in the 1973 edition a two-page article stressing women's intellectual equality and right...
Woody Allen should have taken a shot at Inside the Third Reich. Or even The Naked Ape. Dr. David Reuben's well-scrubbed almanac of sexual aid and comfort only affords Woody another opportunity to turn mating rites into mayhem. It was an opportunity he ought to have passed...
...Almanac's authors first met in the mid-1960s as fellow staffers on the Harvard Crimson. Michael Barone, 27, a Democrat who is now a lawyer in Detroit, has been a demographics adept since he was seven. "I can still remember the excitement of coming across the census figures for 1940 and 1950," he says. "It was like nothing else existed." His collaborators: Douglas Matthews, 27, a liberal Republican who is now studying law at Harvard, and Grant Ujifusa, 29, a political independent and third-generation Japanese American, who is now taking a Ph.D. in American civilization at Brown...
Publishing companies showed little interest until Ujifusa got the attention of an obscure Boston house called Gambit, Inc., which dropped its spring book list to get the Almanac published. It has become a word-of-mouth bestseller already. In the six weeks before publication date (Feb. 24), 25,000 copies in hard-cover ($12.95) and paperback ($4.95) have already been sold. Apparently there is an audience for political specifics that run the gamut from a district-by-district breakdown of federal spending to a concise catalogue of the nation's top 50 defense contractors and their yearly earnings from...