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...factor. Big John is jacketed by steel girders that form a series of five giant Xs on each side. This is intended to provide extra support against the chilling winds that boom in from Lake Michigan. Despite the Xs, however, Big John swings: McElhatton claims that during one recent windstorm, with gusts of up to 75 m.p.h., there were whitecaps in his toilet. The girders creaked and groaned all night...
...Anchorage-based company, Alaska Wildlife Productions, and has published a book, Minus 148, about the first winter ascent of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley. (The title refers to the temperature Art and two other members of the expedition withstood when they were forced to wait out a windstorm for several days in an ice-cave near the summit. One member of the expedition died in a crevasse during the ascent; Art was lucky enough to return to Anchorage with the loss of only one toe to frostbite...
...Kemper Insurance Group outbid nine other companies for the policy to cover Indianapolis' 123 schools against fire, vandalism and other risks. The school board paid its $126,000 annual premium and had only one major claim-$101,000 for windstorm damage. Last week the board was searching for new coverage. Kemper announced that after the Indianapolis policy expires on March 1 it will not be renewed...
...shown to us initially in rapid montage of richly lit terrified faces (a characteristic Ford device seen in Four Men and a Prayer, The Fugitive, The Sun Shines Bright and other films, and an example of Eisensteinian Classicism). Next he airs out the sick ward as a windstorm accompanied by lightning flashes begins (expressionism). He takes sick himself and tries to sleep. The master shot of his bedroom stresses angles directed toward the background, Mudd's walk to the bed, then, goes against the dynamics of the frame and emphasizes his physical struggle. This shot cuts to a high angle...
Missed Wagon. A.D.A. was founded in 1947 as a camp of non-Communist liberalism, in opposition to the Red-riddled popular front built around Presidential Hopeful Henry A. Wallace. But the following year the Wallace movement vanished like smoke in a windstorm, depriving A.D.A. of its original reason for being. In 1948, before the Democratic Convention, A.D.A. rooted against Harry Truman; some prominent A.D.A. members, including Chester Bowles and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., called for a Democratic ticket headed by General Dwight Eisenhower, then a political enigma. But after getting re-elected in 1948, Truman deprived A.D.A of the pleasures...