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Enough already. First the winter of '78 clobbered the East with heavy snow (Boston, 21 in.; New York, 16 in.), the West with drenching rains and high winds, the South with frigid temperatures and a score of tornadoes. In Massachusetts, the state's $9 million snow-removal budget is already exhausted. California drought officials traded in their sun visors for umbrellas and began dispensing flood-control information. Motorists in Georgia shuddered at the foreign squeal of back tires spinning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Now It's the Midwest's Turn | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...casket and moved it to a waiting hearse, she wiped away some tears, then smiled and waved to friends in the crowd. At sundown Humphrey was buried in Minneapolis' Lakewood Cemetery as television spotlights eerily illuminated his final resting place. A 19-gun salute rang through the frigid air, a bugler played taps, cameras clicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rousing Farewell | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...oceans help make the world's weather, how pollution is gradually depleting valuable fisheries and destroying salt marshes where sea birds breed. Its last important section is a series on the world's major ocean areas, tracking origins of the warm Mediterranean Sea and the frigid Arctic Ocean, assaying values of flora, fauna and inanimate components of the marine world, outlining what must be done to preserve and protect them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Into the Deep | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...wasn't funny. It wasn't even cute last night at frigid Watson Rink, where Boston College won a laugher over the Harvard hockey team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Watson Rink Fiasco: B.C. Blanks Harvard, 7-0 | 12/13/1977 | See Source »

...character of Fascist architecture; he floods the sound track with a blaring radio broadcast of the off-screen Hitler rally. Ultimately, A Special Day's apocalyptic atmosphere provides the perfect backdrop for its star's performance. When Antonietta seizes her moment of passion in this frigid world, Loren's warmth can-and does-burn up the screen.-Frank Rich

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Soul of Beauty | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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