Word: chills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cincinnati, the wind-chill factor was 14° F., and there were 3 in. of new snow. So what? The groundskeepers cleared the field at Riverfront Stadium, and 51,937 fans showed up to watch the world champion Reds open the season by beating the San Diego Padres 5-3. Worries such as an arms agreement with the Soviet Union seemed and were a world away. There were tomatoes to plant (seeds for vegetable gardens were headed for record sales coast to coast), morel mushrooms to find, robins to welcome, the Masters golf tournament to watch. Yes, and income taxes...
...been much too strident. To begin with, the Soviets indicated that they might have overreacted to the Administration's position. The decidedly mellowing tone was set during a Kremlin dinner for visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, at which Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev suggested that the Moscow chill had not been intended as a deepfreeze. He referred to the U.S. as "our partners" and scolded the Americans for "losing their constructive approach" and for adhering to a "onesided position." A "reasonable accommodation is possible" in arms limitation, he declared, if the U.S. would only seek "mutually acceptable solutions...
Near-freezing temperatures failed to chill the arm of Ron Stewart or the red-hot bats of the Harvard baseball team as the Crimson smoked to its ninth straight win, 11-2 over Boston College...
Elsewhere, householders have been hit by a double whammy. They must burn more fuel-as much as 23% more in the case of oil-to keep away the chill. And prices are rising, even though domestic oil and natural gas are still under federal control. Retail fuel-oil prices are up about 10% from a year ago. One reason: dealers can raise prices to cover the costs of importing foreign oil-and the U.S. is now getting a record 44% of its petroleum from abroad. The Federal Power Commission last year allowed the top price of natural gas piped across...
Other figures documented how cruel a case of frostbite the January chill gave the economy. Industrial production in January fell a full percentage point, the biggest drop in two years. Housing starts dropped 27% nationally from their December level and as much as 62% in the North Central states, where the cold was especially fierce. Auto plants assembled 15% fewer cars in January than in December. As temperatures have moderated and energy shortages have eased slightly, some signs of revival have appeared: auto sales, for example, rose sharply in the first ten days of February. But it will still...