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...long-range-weather forecasters are hedging their bets, but others are not. The 1978 edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac, out last week, predicts that the Northeast is in for a particularly "cold and gloomy" winter. Snowfall will be 15 to 20 in. above average. The chill will descend as far south as Florida. A moderate winter is predicted for the rest of the country-but folkloric weathermen in the Midwest cite a number of telltale signs that point in the opposite direction: bears are fat and getting fatter, woolly bears (caterpillars) have thin brown bands across their...
...drive to make good on one of its most cherished foreign policy goals?a resumption of the Middle East peace conference in Geneva by year's end?the President produced some mighty big zigs and zags. In the process ?deliberately or not?he also caused the quickest, deepest chill in years between a U.S. Administration and the Israelis and American Jewry. By week's end the frost had melted?a little. More important, Israel, the U.S., the Arab states and the Soviet Union were close to agreement in principle on a formula that might, with a little...
...part of the female anatomy is singled out for celebration from one season to the next, legs are mostly left to hoof it. Beautiful Legs are particularly badly treated in winter, when they are either stuffed into pants and rendered unviewable or left like Dickensian waifs to battle wind-chill factor through a pinch of pantyhose. When Beautiful Legs complain about this scurvy treatment, they are curtly told by designers to go take a walk...
...Diving reflex" and chill waters can prevent drowning deaths...
...bottled up on a narrow road, never had a chance to reach the nuclear site a mile from the battlefield, and their cause ended up as another casualty in the confusion. "What does beating up flics have to do with nuclear energy?" asked one disgusted demonstrator huddling in the chill rain. Scolded the newspaper Quotidien de Paris: "The notion of defense of the environment implies nonviolence...