Word: montes
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December is supposed to be cold, sure, but temperatures on the order of last week's record breakers (-52° in Wisdom, Mont.; -14° in Indianapolis; 0° in Atlanta) are unseasonably, unreasonably cold. Readings in the Central Plains have been 36° below normal. Not since record keeping began had there been December days so cold in Chicago (-25°), New Orleans (14°) and dozens of other places in the country's heartland. Nor did the vicious cold just blow in, flaunt its power briefly and leave. The mercury went down and stayed down: stayed...
...week's end readings had gone as low as a heart-stopping -55° in Wisdom, Mont. Even the Sunbelt shivered. "This is the worst ice storm I've seen in years," said Fort Worth Policeman Henry Green, as the city froze over. "And I've seen some doozies...
...Great Plains and the Midwest were hit hardest by the air mass that rolled in from Canada. In Big Timber, Mont., the wind chill factor (a combination of 15-m.p.h. winds and temperatures of 40 below zero) made it feel as if it were -85°. In Minneapolis, the mercury fell to 29° below, the lowest in 82 years. Power failures kept thousands shivering in the dark. Lander, Wyo. (pop. 7,867), was blacked out for twelve hours; owners of wood-burning stoves invited strangers in to share the warmth. Even the Dynasty crowd loosened up under the chill...
...that the prices of other commonplace products like a Chevrolet have increased about 1,000% since 1940, while the average basic monthly U.S. telephone rate has gone up from $3.67 to just $11.38 during that period, or by 210%. A private line to a dwelling in Great Falls, Mont., costs about $8 "for access to the world," says U S West Chief Executive Jack MacAllister, while it costs $30 to install and maintain the connection. Even if that basic monthly bill doubles, to $16, it is "still only about the price of a tank of gasoline," he says...
...making in this Administration." Helen Thomas, that dogged veteran reporter for United Press International, argued, "The people around Reagan have got him in a cocoon. They feed us just enough to keep us busy." Andrea Mitchell of NBC Nightly TNews added, "I schlepped all the way out to Billings, Mont., for a picture of Reagan in a stagecoach and was never given a chance to ask him a question. We're frustrated...