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Michael Barone '66 says The Almanac of American Politics was born one night in 1963 at a reception for newly elected editors of The Harvard Crimson. Barone, the principal author of the Almanac, remembers meeting Grant Ujifusa '64 that evening and asking him about his home town...
That predilection for information-collection, combined with a $10,000 advance from a small Boston publisher, translated into the first Almanac in 1972. That first edition set a style that Barone and Ujifusa have followed and expanded in five subsequent Almanacs. The book contains a 1500-word profile of each member of Congress and his districts, lists of members' stands on several key issues, ratings by major political action groups and biographical data. Barone has written all of it (Ujifusa edits) since the first edition...
...seven years, Barone has been a vice president of Peter D. Hart Associates, a polling firm in Washington, so the statistical side of the Almanac fir right in with his vocation. But he adds, "Any number is an inadequate description of reality. Numbers are a science, reality is an art." Barone, the Chevy and a good road-map turned Ujifusa's notion into a reality...
Governor Brown did not have to agree to aerial spraying in trying to thwart the Mediterranean fruit fly [July 27]. As the 1981 edition of the Farmers' Almanac specifically points out, "Scientists have discovered that the mating call of the Mediterranean fruit fly has exactly the same frequency as lower F-sharp on the harmonica." All the good Governor needs is a harmonica and an amplifier...
Farmers' Almanac...