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...President Richard Nixon-the meeting at Jackson Lake Lodge was at best a disappointment, at worst a storm signal. Romney's backers wanted the Governors to issue a pronouncement of support for their man, thereby puffing some wind into the sails of his be calmed campaign. No such gust was forthcoming, despite the earnest efforts of New York's Nelson Rockefeller and Rhode Island's John Chafee. Nixon, though undoubtedly relieved by the Governors' failure to rally behind Romney, also had reason to fret. A strong surge of support for California's Governor Ronald Reagan...
...Cornell Saturday night, 62-56, at Ithaca. The Big Red, led by Walt Esdaile's 17 points, have now moved into a first-place Ivy tie with the Tigers. Chris Thomforde had 23 points for the losers. HARVARD BROWN Royer 15 Johnson 9 Reynolds 16 Kanuth 6 Fishman 11 Gust'en 6 Siegur 15 Gallagher 23 Brown 21 Grate 18 Moger 2 Beller 7 Puryis 4 Dressler 2 Landau 3 Martell 6 Total 92 Total...
High atop a mountain, a gust toppled a transmission tower; a crackling power line dropped into the brush and started a fire. Winds up to 50 m.p.h. quickly whipped blazes into conflagrations that ruined 2,100 acres of the Angeles National Forest, killed 14 fire fighters and severely burned twelve others. Even those not directly threatened by the flames felt the wrath of the Santa Ana. Temperatures in downtown Los Angeles rose to a stifling 100°; extremely low humidity dried the throats, chapped the lips, and helped bring an unaccustomed irritability to untold millions of Southern Californians...
...that it isn't. The performance of a supper-club songbird, in fact, is a coldly calculated exercise in group seduction. Every movement, every lighting change is as carefully mapped out as a market-research study and a subliminal soft-sell. There is, for instance, the old "arctic gust" routine, whereby the air conditioning in a club is turned up full blast a few minutes before showtime. The hapless audience, unaware of what hit it, naturally attributes the sudden lift in spirits to the personality of the performer. And when it comes time for the singer's exit...
...such speed, even a gust of wind can spell disaster-as two-time 500 Winner A. J. Foyt discovered last week when his Ford-powered Sheraton-Thompson Coyote was blown into the outer retaining wall at 162 m.p.h. The car was totally demolished, but Foyt was unhurt. Chuck Rodee was not so lucky. Rodee already had gunned his 500-h.p. rear-engine Offenhauser through one practice lap at 159.9 m.p.h.; now he was trying to top that. Drifting through the speedway's No. 1 turn, he was suddenly blinded by a bit of rag or paper that blew into...