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...Sunspot Cycle. The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun. Changes in the earth's tilt and distance from the sun could, for instance, significantly increase or decrease the amount of solar radiation falling on either hemisphere-thereby altering the earth's climate. Some observers have tried to connect the eleven-year sunspot cycle with climate patterns, but have so far been unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of how the cycle might be involved...
Harvard's quixotic fencing team, on the threshhold of clinching sole possession of its first Ivy title, failed to maintain its hold on the Ivy sunspot Saturday, dropping a heartbreaking 14-13 decision to Yale in New Haven...
...stock market so often seems to be ruled by arcane forces that its more imaginative speculators have tried to correlate its gyrations with all sorts of noneconomic indicators: sunspot activity, hemline lengths, the 13th century "Fibonacci sequence" of numbers, or even the messages flashed on a Jehovah's Witnesses sign in Brooklyn that is visible from Wall Street's towers.* The newest indicator, and an unusually reliable one, is the itinerary of Henry Kissinger. When President Nixon's personal agent jets to Peking or Paris for talks about Viet Nam, stock prices often shoot...
...solar outbreak came at an unusual time-only about three years after sunspot activity (usually associated with such eruptions) had reached its maximum in what is generally an eleven-year solar cycle. Said Solar Forecaster Robert Doeker at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's observatory in Boulder, Colo.: "It's like getting snow in Atlanta in July...
Economist W.S. Jevons astounded the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1878 by postulating that ups and downs in the economy were caused by sunspot cycles, which he said governed agricultural cycles. Economic science has advanced notably since then, and forecasters now focus on more down-to-earth indicators-like housing starts, manufacturers' new orders and retail sales (which according to the most recent weekly report ran 11% ahead of a year ago). Yet countless Americans have their personal systems for handicapping the economy. Their idiosyncratic indicators are sometimes as reliable as the official measures...