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...publication, entitled "The Almanac," will consist of reports from each faculty dean and a number of lengthy articles on the major University-wide issues of the year...
Peterson said "The Almanac" will be issued "periodically, but probably annually," if alumni reaction to the first edition is favorable...
Much of this calendar esoterica can be found in Chase's Calendar of Annual Events, an oddball almanac that lists 2,300 days and events around the world. Published by William Chase, 52, of Flint, Mich., the 68-page booklet includes celebrations like Whoop-Up Days in Alberta, Canada, the Bratwurst Festival in Bucyrus, Ohio, or the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts in Singapore...
...mind you it's a big but--there's been a lot of collaborative testimony that the latter half of this winter may bring skiers their long-awaited paradise. The U.S. Weather Bureau's six-month forecast, and almost all of the various Almanac's that purport to give accurate weather forecasts have predicted that February and March could degenerate into a series of heavy blizzards--something about the Gulf Stream and polar air masses...
...beginning, Ford was just a quiet minority leader from Michigan, defending a Republican administration's positions competently if not outstandingly, taking a conservative but far from unusual position on labor and civil rights issues, and only rarely entering a public spotlight. The Almanac of American Politics might cite the consummate political skill with which he led the fight to keep Congress from stopping the bombing of Cambodia. But newspapers gave little attention to such day-to-day details, preferring to focus on the more startling although less murderous activities of the Committee to Re-elect the President...