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...students gathered in front of the home of Peking University President Ding Shisun, demanding that he intercede on behalf of the detainees, who they claimed were 24 in number. Speaking through a megaphone, Ding promised to seek their release. But the crowd was in no mood to disperse, despite subzero temperatures and a fresh two-inch snowfall. Instead, it picked up additional demonstrators in a march through the campus and from nearby People's University, and set out across White Stone Bridge toward Tiananmen. At its height the throng numbered around...
Radio contact with Uemura abruptly ceased the next day, possibly because subzero temperatures had weakened the batteries of his Citizens Band radio. On Feb. 16 the mountaineer was spotted by a glacier pilot near a snow-hole bivouac at 16,400 ft. Uemura waved, a prearranged signal that all was well. When he failed to reappear by Feb. 19, rescue efforts were begun, but they were frustrated by thick clouds, high winds and blinding snow. Two of Uemura's friends, Climbers Jim Wickwire and Eiho Otani, were dropped onto the mountain by helicopter at the 14,300-ft. level...
Most of the subzero zone, which stretched from the Rockies east to the Alleghenies, began to warm up just after Christmas, prompting an epidemic of jokes about 15° "heat waves." Midweek, however, the bitter cold snapped back down the country's spine, setting records in cities such as Casper, Wyo. (-26°), Denver (15°) and Amarillo, Texas (-5°). Nor was the worst over for much of the Deep South. Tornadoes roared through Georgia and Florida on Thursday...
Within the past few years, broadcast crews have died in helicopter crashes near Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston and Miami. Last New Year's Day, a Denver team survived a forced landing and a subzero night spent stranded, after its chopper headed into a blinding snowstorm to cover a small commercial plane crash...
...last week's subzero winds at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium, San Diego Quarterback Dan Fouts looked like a man trying to throw a nerf ball in mid-hurricane. The passes of the winning quarterback, Cincinnati's Kenny Anderson, were somehow strong and true. Said Bengal Linebacker Reggie Williams: "He has the mental toughness to be able to control the ball under those conditions. Fouts was not able to do that." Anderson put it differently, in his normal self-deflating prose: "I threw a lot of flutter balls and some end-over-enders. We were going to throw...