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...Boston, fat guys who only run after buses can tell you, in detail, all about the course layout, the previous winners, and the legendary heroes. Weathermen predict the order of finish. Everyone either runs the race or wishes he could...
...Carl Sagan is correct and nuclear winter is just around the corner the weathermen of American are in for a lot of trouble if purple rain who overrun the other three seasons how will these poor gentlemen be able to forecast the coming of nuclear spring...
Undeterred, the new editor hired young, iconoclastic writers whom he called "my city-room Weathermen," hailed the counterculture and turned the paper vehemently against the Viet Nam War. The Globe won its first Pulitzer Prize the year after he took over, for probing the credentials of a federal-judgeship nominee who was a Kennedy family retainer; it has since won ten more, the majority for reports on such issues as race relations and arms control. During Winship's tenure, circulation jumped about 40%, to 520,000 daily and 793,000 (eighth in the U.S.) on Sunday. Last week this...
...more than ten years, television weathermen have been displaying satellite maps of low pressures, high pressures, twisters and tempests, sometimes impressing their audiences with the scientific predictability of their forecasts. But the geostationary operational environmental satellites (GOES), which transmit the images for those maps, have been highly unpredictable: of the six GOES launched since 1975, five are not functioning properly. The $70 million GOES 5, sent up in 1981 to cover the East Coast and the Atlantic Ocean for at least five years, became the latest casualty last week when it went blind, just before the peak of the hurricane...
...first major assault took place in September 1969, when 20 to 30 members of The Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), rushed into the offices of the Center, chasing out staff members and physically assaulting those who resisted. They gave Benjamin H. Brown, director of the Fellows Program, a serious gash above the ear, and once inside the building, they painted the slogans 'Pig' and 'Fuck US Imperialism' on the interior walls...