Word: blizzards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handling of last winter's record blizzards helped bury the political career of for mer Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic. Now a sculpture of Bilandic and his socialite wife Heather, by John Setick, has created another blizzard, this one of controversy. Sefick's The Bilandics, which the sculptor describes as "a Chicago rendition of Grant Wood's American Gothic, "went on display in the city's Daley Center in mid-November. The work depicts the couple relaxing, with a taped voice coming from the former mayor's figure saying: "Put another log on the fire, Heather...
...aircraft was lost, the three-engine jet rammed into the snow covered side of Mount Erebus and exploded. Nine hours later, search aircraft from the nearby U.S. airbase at McMurdo Sound spotted the wreckage strewn over a quarter-mile area of the steep slope at 2,500 ft. Despite blizzard conditions, three New Zealand mountaineers managed to land at the scene by helicopter; they confirmed that there were no survivors at the site that rescue volunteers later described as "a hellhole...
...hours how to slash their energy costs. Ultimately, the projects organizers hope community volunteers will knock on every door in town and weatherproof thousands of homes. Such measures are unglamorous, but essential to a nation that hopes to be free of its dependence on foreign oil. Before the next blizzard, citizens and government at all levels must develop these and all other alternatives available to ward off the long cold winter...
Regisration for the November 6 election closed last Wednesday, and election officials are still digging out from under a blizzard of forms. Close to 700 town residents registered on the last possible day this year, compared with 500 in the last municipal election in 1977, city election officials said last week...
...What really killed us, though, was the housebreaks," Paolillo said. He added that the two-year comparison might not be totally valid, since the blizzard that shut down the city for several weeks last year reduced the number of housebreaks. The number of robberies definitely rose, however, he said...