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Proof of Steve's popularity surfaced in Providence this February when more than 1500 students lined up in a driving blizzard to receive free ice cream at the grand opening of the branch there Owner Brian C. McLaughlin gave away 200 gallons of ice cream with mix-ins in less than eight hours...
...since Tiros 1, the first of the nation's weather satellites, went up in 1960, these sentinels of the atmosphere have proved invaluable watchdogs. Their advance warnings of hurricanes and tornadoes have saved countless lives and billions of dollars in property. Only this winter the satellites predicted the blizzard in the Northeast and major coastal storms in California. Though meteorology remains inexact, the flood of images from space has made today's 24-hour weather forecasts at least twice as accurate as those of pre-satellite days...
...between meals, the U.S. is in the midst of a popcorn explosion. Since 1972, consumption has soared from 372 million to 611 million lbs. a year, or about 42 qt. per person. From Florida and Texas, where jalapeno popcorn is hot, to the blizzard belt, where maple flavor warms the gullet, new retailers keep popping up across the U.S. There seems to be room for all. For instance, a dozen or more competitors have opened up around the two Garrett Pop Corn Shops in Chicago's Loop; even so, the 33-year-old Garrett's, which sells only...
...possible explanation for Washington's contradictory comments last week lay in the fact that the diplomatic process was going nowhere. The Israeli-Lebanese talks were stalled, and not merely because Lebanon was being assaulted by the most severe blizzard in memory. The Palestine National Council, the policymaking body of the P.L.O., was ending its meeting in Algiers on an ambiguous note. The council refrained from rejecting the peace plan Reagan presented last September; that was considered a modest victory for P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. On the other hand, the council refused to endorse either the Reagan plan...
...might be best to consider some recent Chicago history. In 1979, an upstart city commissioner for consumer sales, Jane Byrne, challenged Daley's successor, Mayor Michael A. Bilandic. Thanks to a winter blizzard that paralyzed city services and embarrassed the Bilandic administration, Byrne upset Bilandic in the Democratic primary, defeated the Republican candidate, and became Chicago's first woman mayor. They said the machine was dead, and Jane Byrne had killed...