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Almost all TV weathercasters rely primarily upon the basic data provided by the National Weather Service. A private ser vice, Accu-Weather, supplies information to more than 40 TV stations around the nation. But weathermen, the good ones at least, pa somewhat like doctors: several examining the same patient may arrive at different diagnoses. Experience and savvy count-knowing, for example, when a minor geographical shift of a pressure system might make the difference between a drenching rain and a couple of feet of snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Wonderful Art of Weathercasting | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

According to Robert Chitester, president of Erie, Pa., station WQLN, who is responsible for television's newest Uncle Miltie, the show's reception has been "encouraging." But in New York Free to Choose is getting barely 2% of the audience because its 5 p.m. Sunday time slot puts it up against prime sports viewing hours. Friedman in recent weeks has been no match for the Wide World of Sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Uncle Miltie | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

COLD STORAGE tells in brutal blacks, blues, and institutional grays the horror of the Farview Hospital for the Criminally Insane in the hills of Wayne Country, Pa., where patients were condemned to therapy worse than life. With white-knuckled intensity Wendell Rawls confronts the nightmarish facts: sadistic "care," beatings, druggings, and homosexual rapes that often end in murder, psychological counseling that rarely extends beyond "You're just as crazy as a shithouse...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Under Control | 3/7/1980 | See Source »

PHILADELPHIA. Pa.--Scoring individual first places in three events and collecting another host of top-six finishes the final day, the Harvard men's swim team increased its final victory margin over arch-rival Princeton to 106, and wrapped up its second consecutive Eastern Swimming Championship here Saturday...

Author: By John S. Bruce, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Aquamen Romp at Eastern Seaboards | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...polished grappling skills of Rick Kief and Jim Phills surfaced once against Saturday when they proved themselves among the best in the East with fourth-place finishes in their respective weight divisions at the Eastern Championships held this weekend at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Matmen 12th at Easterns; Kief, Phills Post Fourths | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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