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...department is also besieged by oddball nominations, including recent proposals for the commemoration of mothers-in-law, the ten most wanted men, the Texas longhorn, the pretzel industry, the hamburger, the 100th anniversary of the first daylight bank robbery in the U.S. (a heist on Feb. 13, 1866, in Liberty, Mo.), and the 4,000th anniversary of the pickle...
...Hook. The sponsors of the state's pro-Daylight Saving drive were aware of an odd hook sometimes found in referendum laws. By petitioning for a referendum on a newly enacted law, a mere 5% of Michigan's voters can nullify that law until the next general election, which in this case will be in 1968. Only 274 more people than the required minimum-123,096 out of the nearly 2,500,000 who voted in the last statewide election-signed petitions, thereby suspending the anti-Daylight Saving law. Thus, for at least two summers, the fraction...
...result was instant chaos. City and county offices in many western towns in the Upper Peninsula refused to change to Daylight Time; federal offices shifted obediently, then moved their office hours up one hour to cancel out the off-phase effect. State-operated liquor stores closed on Daylight, but bars grabbed an extra late hour of business by sticking to Standard Time. The twin cities of Calumet and Hancock could not agree and so divided...
State officials finally worked out a compromise. The Upper Peninsula will go on Central Daylight (which is, of course, the same as Eastern Standard); the rest of the state will stay on Eastern Daylight...
...single degree in temperature, and the approach to such key mid-flight havens as Greenland's fiord-fringed Narsarssuak airfield (known to thousands of World War II flyers as Bluie West One) is as often as not socked in blind by icy mists. Even though it is daylight almost round the clock along that route in summer, there are few landmarks to use as checkpoints. As Pilot Stiber says, "Any man who doesn't completely understand dead-reckoning navigation [using only charts and compass] had better stay home...