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Short received the Dana Reed Prize--awarded annually to the best piece of undergraduate writing--for a gripping personal account of the 1969 Weathermen not in Chicago...
...much of the New Left did disintegrate into an unimaginative revolutionary mindset in the late Sixties. The Rothman-Lichter "authoritarian" model seems fairly appropriate when applied to the post-1967 years and the devolution of the Weathermen. The authors set out to explain what powered a movement, and their effort has the positive effect of prompting curiosity about the variety of factors involved. But the book quickly becomes an indictment and fails because its charges are too often obscure and exaggerated. Regardless of its pathetic demise, the SDS-led New Left deserves serious consideration of its major accomplishment, forcing this...
...MORE also offers Rooney at his best. He presents prosaic subjects not only for their own sake--"where did [Manhattan's] Fourth Avenue go?"--but also because they serve as a foundation on which he constructs amusing and developed discussions. He hates weathermen, as he describes their typical broadcast. "There's ice on the roads today and many of the roads are slippery, listeners, so please drive carefully,'" Rooney wonders. "Does he think we're idiots? Does he think we don't know ice is slippery'" Horoscopes receive a similar treatment. "Cancer: This is a good time for those...
...need a computer to tell which way the wind blows, but your local weather forecaster does. Twice a day a National Weather Service computer in Suitland, Md., provides meteorologists all over the country with the basic material for their predictions: temperature readings, weather maps, storm warnings. Though weathermen remain the objects of joking more than of genuflection, computers have steadily increased the accuracy of their forecasts by about half a percent a year over the past 15 years. Now, thanks to some new machinery being installed at NWS headquarters and its 280 local offices, that modest rate of improvement could...
...meteorologist summons up on a video screen the weather service's national data, presses a button that superimposes more detailed readings from nearby observation posts and presses another key that zooms in on his state or county for an up-to-date rundown of the local weather. Some weathermen remain skeptical, as one Midwestern forecaster puts it, as to "whether AFOS computers will actually improve forecasts or give bad forecasts more frequently." But NWS Director Richard Hallgren has no such doubts. "The larger the computer, the better the forecast," he says. "As the computer gets bigger...