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Mayor Jane Byrne declared an emergency in Chicago, where the temperature fell to minus 76 with a wind-chill of minus 81. As many as 50,000 Chicagoans were without electricity as wires snapped in the extreme cold, a spokesman for Commonwealth Edison said yesterday...
...fired employees also charged the management with trying to "chill" attempts at unionization at The Atrium Cafe on Church St. also owned by DiGiovanni...
...drum roll, that criticized by name the Polish Communists for tolerating counterrevolution: "We are disturbed by the fact that the offensive by antisocialist enemy forces in Poland threatens the interests of our entire commonwealth and the security of its borders?yes, our common security." In early July, a chill settled over Warsaw: Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko dourly descended upon the Polish capital with yet another admonition against any liberalizing tendency within the party...
...grew to represent 500 titles and adds 100 new works each year. Although the cassettes can be purchased, most of the company's 30,000 subscribers rent them at $6.50 to $16.50 for 30 days, then return the copies in postpaid cartons. The most requested books: Winston Chur chill's six-volume The Second World War, (148.5 hours, 99 cassettes; $116.50), Irving Stone's The Origin (30 hours, 20 tapes; $21) and the novels of Somerset Maugham, along with such current thrillers as Triple and Free Fall in Crimson...
When the first chill sweeps across the tundra of northern Manitoba each year, the bears, in particular the big males, begin to think about their favorite winter activity, hunting fat seals on the ice floes of Hudson Bay. With unerring instinct, they begin congregating around the bay's southwestern shores, mostly in the area of Cape Churchill, only 35 miles east of the town, where the first ice usually forms. Meanwhile, pregnant females, urged on by another instinct, head for a bleak region 50 miles south of Churchill, the largest known polar bear denning area in the world...