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...young conscripts who stand guard at every significant intersection in Warsaw attempt to be pleasant. They seem overjoyed when an occasional passer-by stops to chat as they stand next to their coal-fired braziers warming themselves against the freezing temperatures of one of Poland's coldest and snowiest Decembers in years. But they are easily angered when people mutter that "all the coal goes to the army...
...debate on his plan. In 1975 he presided over the closing of three elementary schools. "You don't make friends closing schools," he says. Parents and teachers quickly organized to fight for the schools on Hill's new list. Throughout January and February, during the coldest and snowiest winter in Evanston's history, while most restaurants were empty and movie theaters closed for lack of audiences, the evening school-board meetings were crowded with 400 or 500 people, all eager to be heard...
...Americans rang in the New Year last week, it was an oddly kaleidoscopic moment. Bostonians had slogged through the snowiest December since 1947, and the traffic-snarling snowfalls gave the angular shapes of the town houses on Commonwealth Avenue a specially softened calm. Houston's golf courses were flecked with executives basking in record warm temperatures. Nippy winds scoured clean the usually smoggy Los Angeles basin, offering Southern Californians breathtaking panoramas that they rarely see. The vagaries of the weather matched the novelty of the national mood, as Americans took stock of 1970 and looked to the year ahead...
Real winter came to western Canada last week in the blowiest, snowiest, coldest storm since record-keeping began in 1884. It laid a heavy white hand on the Rockies, then roared down across the prairies. It snapped power and telephone lines, blotted out roads, buried autos, stalled snowplows, isolated towns, made kids happy by closing schools. In Edmonton, where a new record for mid-November warmth (60°) had just been set, the storm shoved temperatures down to 24° below zero...
...motorists, skidding, churning, and bogging down in one of the snowiest winters on record, last week heard gripping news. At long last there has apparently been developed an honest-to-goodness nonskid tire...