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...every weather office. Using AFOS, a meteorologist summons up on a video screen the weather service's national data, presses a button that superimposes more detailed readings from nearby observation posts and presses another key that zooms in on his state or county for an up-to-date rundown of the local weather. Some weathermen remain skeptical, as one Midwestern forecaster puts it, as to "whether AFOS computers will actually improve forecasts or give bad forecasts more frequently." But NWS Director Richard Hallgren has no such doubts. "The larger the computer, the better the forecast," he says...
...cheaper gasoline at the pump, prices have suddenly started to creep up again. The reason: a developing squeeze on worldwide petroleum stockpiles and supplies. Production cuts by Saudi Arabia, the largest single oil producer in the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, have combined with a continuing rundown of excess inventories by oil companies to start wiping out the price-depressing effects of last winter's oil glut. Says Claude Messinger of Ashland Oil, who was the chairman of a gathering last week in New York of the American Petroleum Institute: "In my judgment, gasoline prices have bottomed...
...ridiculous" estimates that the Caribbean trip had cost the taxpayers $5 million, but gave no figure of his own. The White House does estimate that more than 300 people accompanied Reagan to Jamaica and Barbados, not counting 200 members of the press, who paid their own way. A partial rundown of the staffs duties...
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...perform in her Broadway hit, The Little Foxes. Diana turned up in the royal box of the Victoria Palace Theater to catch Queen Liz in action. At the end of the show, the Princess trooped backstage. "Thank you for a lovely performance," said Diana. When asked for a rundown of their chat, Taylor was uncharacteristically closemouthed. "I was more than thrilled to meet her," said Liz, "but I never discuss private conversations...