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...afield. Said he: "It has its origins in Siberia, where it's been lying for the past couple of weeks." The consequences of the Arctic cold sweep were global. The same air mass refrigerating the U.S. helped set records and disrupt life all over Europe. All of the weathermen agreed that the continuing frigidity was extraordinary. Said Case: "It was the type of mass outbreak, in size and severity, that we see once every 50 years." Strong winds made the cold even more bitter. In Chicago, the wind-chill factor was calculated at -81°. Even for weather-jaded...
...National Guard armories served as shelters for the thousands whose heaters were useless in the widespread blackout, and Guardsmen carted generators to remote towns. Birmingham residents were shocked enough by the -2° cold, but then the weather became positively weird: multicolored lightning flashed in the night sky. Weathermen speculated that the colors resulted from light-refracting ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Alabama Governor Fob James proclaimed a state of emergency and, in a televised address, chastened his constituents: "Don't get out unless you absolutely have to." Two young couples in the Birmingham suburbs were heedless...
Snow began to fall in Cambridge shortly after 2 p.m. on Saturday, and continued without let-up until midday yesterday, despite the confident predictions of local weathermen that accumulations would not exceed four inches...
...weatherman to know which way the wind blows"), the group was formed in 1969 by about 300 mostly white, middle-class youths who split from the relatively nonviolent Students for a Democratic Society and called for an "armed struggle against the state." A hard core of about 40 Weathermen went underground in 1970 to start a terror campaign. In March of that year three members died in the explosion of a town house in New York City's Greenwich Village; Katherine Boudin and Cathlyn Wilkerson escaped. The Weather Underground proceeded to bomb "symbols of Amerikan [sic] injustice," including...
...former Weathermen contacted last night did not distinctly recall Gilbert...