Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Planet of the Apes. The citizens of Durango have seen 65 movies shot in their town, but this one has managed to unnerve them. Because of the film's supernatural goings on, people working near the sets have blamed the devil's rainmakers for everything from bad weather to leaky canoes. They left the 6-ft. Borgnine pretty much alone. Says the grinning actor: "Guess I'm lucky as the devil...
...convenience," says Traffic Engineer Alain Leclerc, head of what he calls "the Two Wheels in Grenoble" program. "It also offers free choice of departure time and destination, plus the possibility of moving about without taking a hard-to-park ton of steel along with you." In case of inclement weather or too many parcels or small children, mass transit would always be available. By geological accident, moreover, the Grenoble valley is almost flat, and thus is ideal for bicycling. The only drawback: auto and truck traffic has made bicycling too dangerous...
...National Weather Service uses all the ingenuity of science to forecast sun or rain including satellite pictures of storm patterns and complex computer printouts. On the other hand, a three-year-old 1,400-lb. cow named Bramer trusts more to instinct. When she senses that bad weather is coming the next day, she beds down in her straw-lined stall in Huntsville, Texas. When some thing tells her that a sunny day is due on the morrow, she ventures forth to graze, even if the weather at that moment is drizzly...
Noting his cow's peculiar talents, Farmer John McAdams decided to match Bramer's predictions against those of the Houston Weather Service, which he felt rarely knew when to come in out of the rain. The Huntsville Item, a thrice-weekly newspaper, agreed to serve as scorekeeper. For every correct prediction, cow and computer receive one point. For every mistake, each is docked a point...
Paducah opened the attack. On a chilly, drizzly night, the town sprayed its roosting flock with a detergent that, in combination with the rain, removed insulating oil from the birds' feathers. Cold weather did the rest: 20% of the birds died. A few nights later, the Army went to work at Fort Campbell without waiting for rain. Huey helicopters sprayed the blackbirds with detergent, then fire trucks doused them with water. Meanwhile, the birds at the Milan arsenal have been left alone-until the next rainy cold spell. But the Army still stands a good chance of losing...