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Perhaps the turning point was in Lincoln Park, Chicago, in the summer of 1968. The naked violence of the state, until then aimed against nameless peasants in Vietnamese villages, was now directed against the young demonstrators. Afterwards the Movement took perverted forms, such as the SLA and the Weathermen, and many former activists went into seclusion...
...department of popular culture, which immediately took root and flourished. The department now has a $500,000 library, four professors, 43 graduate students and 600 undergraduates every quarter. It also publishes a more or less scholarly quarterly, Journal of Popular Culture (containing articles on such subjects as carnivals, television weathermen and women's magazines), and ten specialized books a year on its own press. Browne, 52, says the department "deals with a very important segment of society, the contemporary scene. Popular culture is holding us up to ourselves to see. It can tell us who we are, what...
Science, as might be expected, decries such prognosticators as unreliable. Weathermen at Washington's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration point out that squirrels are hoarding nuts mostly because nuts are more plentiful. For its forecasts, the NOAA turns to an array of computers, and they indicate-well, guess what? The "chances are 14 to 1 that this winter will be colder than that of 1973." One meteorologist with the National Weather Service, his tongue wrapped warmly in his cheek, was less confident: "I talk to the squirrels in my backyard every morning, and they don't know...
...Weathermen issued increasingly urgent warnings to residents in "Tornado Alley," that vast stretch of plains lying be tween the Appalachians and the Rockies and sweeping from Georgia and Alabama up to Canada. When the storms hit in midweek, the tornado fun nels were twirling at 200 m.p.h...
...give encouragement to his "city-room Weathermen," as he calls them, Winship frequently sends out "tiger notes," which invariably begin: "Terrific job, Tiger. Keep 'em coming." The fact that the editor frequently wears rumpled seersucker, odd slacks and boots doesn't hurt rapport either. Not that generational and ideological friction is completely absent. Radical Columnist David Deitch was recently removed from the Op-Ed page. Winship explained that the change was to make room for contributions from Ralph Nader and the Black Congressional Caucus; Deitch charged that the paper could no longer swallow his attacks on the Boston...