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...These days, hurricanes are studied in exacting detail, but scientists used to describe the storms in one of two ways: major or minor. In 1969, South Florida structural engineer Herbert Saffir came up with the idea of a five-category scale as part of a project commissioned by the United Nations. Later expanded by National Hurricane Center director Robert Simpson--and dubbed the Saffir-Simpson scale--it is now the standard guide to a hurricane's expected impact. Saffir...
...late afternoon Hugo was upgraded to category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane strength, the second mightiest category. The storm's winds increased to 135 m.p.h., up from 105 the day before...
...LaChance was then head of a newspaper drivers' union that had interfered with the delivery of the New York Trib, a troubled morning tabloid that failed after publishing for a mere three months. Donovan's company had invested $370,000 in the newspaper, according to Leonard Saffir, its founder and publisher. William Casey, now director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was briefly on the Trib's board. Donovan was a stockholder and became a director after Casey left the board...
LaChance's union had held up delivery of 135,000 copies of the Trib and threatened to shut it down with a full-scale strike. A court ordered the deliverers back to work, but according to Saffir it was the meeting between Donovan and LaChance at the Algonquin and the subsequent phone calls the two men exchanged that caused the drivers to resume deliveries. LaChance is now serving a twelve-year prison term for extorting $300,000 from various employers...
...Post, but the prospect of a citywide strike has receded. As it was, the Trib even missed the story of its own death. Unable to come up with the check for roughly $23,000 that the paper's New Jersey printer demanded each night before rolling the presses, Saffir canceled what would have been the self-proclaimed final edition. The staff calmly broke out some beer and began cleaning out their desks...