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...Bermuda was celebrating a narrow escape from a hurricane last week. Hurricane "Easy"* had roared up from the region north of Puerto Rico, curved toward the northeast, and was bearing down on Bermuda with house-smashing 160 m.p.h. winds. Tourists were huddled indoors behind boarded-up windows. Natives, expecting the worst, had battened down all hatches. Then "Easy" swerved sharply toward the east, its center missing Bermuda by 80 miles. At the same time, the force of its winds diminished. Bermuda got only a mild gale that blew down a few banana trees...
...gallant knight that rescued Bermuda was a second hurricane, "Fox," that followed a converging course to the eastward, farther out in the Atlantic. When the two Storms were 450 miles apart, they began to come under the "Fujihara Effect"-the tendency of two approaching hurricanes to waltz around each other (see diagram...
Then another process begins. The two spinning storms begin to move around one another. They never complete a full turn, but the waltzing motion diverts them from their courses. It was this providential swerving that saved Bermuda...
...clergyman's daughter, Mount Holyoke graduate and the former editor of a string of pulp magazines. She expertly manages his business affairs and his home, and has helped him enormously in conquering his blindness. The Thurbers spend part of every winter and spring in Hot Springs, Va. and Bermuda. Summer and fall they live in their beautiful twelve-room, go-year-old house on 65 acres of land in West Cornwall, Conn...
...Colonial gave free rides and cut rates to unauthorized passengers, appointed the manager of a Bermuda Hotel its agent so it could give the hotel's employees a special rate...