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...father, who owned a string of Midwestern radio stations, was on vacation in the Caribbean, Wilkerson turned over his elegant Greenwich Village home to Weatherman friends, who apparently began making bombs in the basement. A series of dynamite blasts not only demolished the house, but also killed three Weathermen...
Almost all TV weathercasters rely primarily upon the basic data provided by the National Weather Service. A private ser vice, Accu-Weather, supplies information to more than 40 TV stations around the nation. But weathermen, the good ones at least, pa somewhat like doctors: several examining the same patient may arrive at different diagnoses. Experience and savvy count-knowing, for example, when a minor geographical shift of a pressure system might make the difference between a drenching rain and a couple of feet of snow...
...Walter Reuther's salary in 1945 was just $7,000 while that of the president of General Motors was $459,000? Did you know that Stokely Carmichael not only spoke Yiddish but liked to taunt Southern Sheriffs with "Kish mir tuchas, baby," and that Ted Gold, one of the Weathermen responsible for firebombing Justice John Murtagh's home in 1970, was actually "shy, almost professorial" by nature? And the historical data is just as painstakingly chronicled: dates, times, and characters are placed just so in the elaborate panoramic view of the Left Lader sets up to enlighten his readers. Enlighten...
...viewers or aluminized Mylar screens sold at fast-food outlets. (Without such precautions, sun gazers risk damaging their eyes.) Some will even usher in the event at a roc-'n'-roll celebration on an old armed forces base in Rivers, Man. But the music may be dirgelike. Weathermen are predicting only a 77% chance of clear skies over Winnipeg. As for more southerly latitudes, even a clear sky will not be of much help; as one Winnipeg observer puts it, the difference between a total and partial eclipse is "like night...
...honesty, which do you think this country prefers, an "overzealous" FBI or the "overzealous" Weathermen...