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...Times, looking for the guilty parties, suggested that U.S. weathermen might profit by some tips from their fellow forecasters overseas. Back in the 1890s, when many Americans were still getting weather predictions from the almanac, France's Léon Teisserenc de Bort was finding out about the stratosphere, charting the upper air (with Germany's Richard Assmann) and collecting weather data from 30 stations all over the world. In 1919, Norway's Vilhelm Bjerknes and his son Jakob (now head of the Department of Meteorology at U.C.L.A.) hoisted forecasting into a third dimension...
...Italians cautiously optimistic. In a fashionable church in the Corso d'ltalia a pale-faced friar exclaimed: "No miracle is impossible to God. It is not impossible for God to lift the angry clouds that hang so heavily on 1948's beginning." Barbanera (Black-beard), a popular almanac of astrology, predicted for 1948: "Unsuccessful diplomatic encounters . . . conflict avoided in the nick of time...
...World Almanac lists 864 of these "state U's" and other colleges in the United States. When University of California president Robert Gordon Sproul recently assorted that. "American faculties overwhelmingly agree that Harvard is the first institution of the land," he simply poured salt in the wounds of the student had alumni, subway as well as actual, of every last one of the other...
...This] places Indian summer pretty well into November. We have always figured it began Nov. 13 in The Old Farmer's Almanac...
...Farmer's Almanac Dublin...