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...official. After consulting informal temperature records kept by such oldtimers as Thomas Jefferson, Henry Thoreau and Noah Webster, the service announced that January in the eastern two-thirds of the country was the coldest month in 177 years. If temperatures through March run only moderately below normal, said the weathermen, the nation will have a true Bicentennial winter: the most shivery since the founding of the Republic...
...killing factor is wind chill. The term, glibly cited by TV weathermen but only dimly understood by a flash-frozen populace, is based on a scale that precisely correlates temperature and wind force. Wind chill-expressed in meteorological phraseology as "equivalent temperature"-measures the difference, in impact on exposed skin, between what the thermometer registers and the wind delivers...
Meanwhile, out in the Southwest, another severe storm was brewing, and local weathermen, saying that it looked like this was the winter that would pull out all the stops, forecast even more snow for Sunday night and Monday...
...disgrace during the Watergate scandal. Gray refused to comment, but Malone has acknowledged that the list "could have been" in his safe. Some FBI officials suspect that Gray was pressured by the Nixon White House to approve the use of bag jobs. As one agent explained the rationale: "These Weathermen were bomb throwers. The pressure was on to do something about them. The agents were acting to protect the country." Field agents insisted that records of the approved bag jobs were kept in Washington. If so, they were apparently never brought to Kelley's attention...
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