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...storm built slowly, ominously. From the Gulf of Mexico, huge masses of warm, moist air moved northward to ward the center of the continent. From the West, a threatening layer of cooler, drier air seeped eastward toward the Appalachians, sliding under the moist air. As the two layers converged in an uneasy mixture, tremendous turbulence developed. In the roiling atmosphere, embryo funnels of spinning air formed, dissolved and reformed-a telltale sign that the tornado season had arrived...
Incredible Money. This sybaritic service is the idea of Ward Sylvester, 34, a Harvard Business School graduate and Hollywood promoter. "A lot of young musicians are making incredible money," he explains. "But nobody is targeting them as a market." Sylvester also observes that entertainers do not like commercial airlines and often vice versa. Says he: "Being on a long flight is like a personal appearance for a performer because he spends the whole time signing cocktail napkins." Also, fellow passengers and airline personnel tend to look askance at long-haired young musicians in first class-even if they happen...
...Items. That trend is not all bad for retailers. Mail-order sales of Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and other catalogue houses are surging as more energy-conscious shoppers let their fingers do the traveling. Some store chains report that their long-languishing downtown branches are jammed with customers unwilling to motor to far-flung suburban shopping centers. Department stores report strong sales of books, games, television sets and other aids to a quiet evening at home. Other hot items include furniture, household hardware, seeds and garden supplies, and backyard swimming pools. "People are paying more attention to their homes," explains...
...naked dash has achieved Olympian, if not exactly Olympic proportions (see MODERN LIVING). Already those first lonely streakers across dark and isolated campuses seem the fusty pioneers of a misty age. The streaking contagion has spread to every corner of the U.S., spilled across to Europe, gingerly moved out ward in both directions on the age ladder, infected a still minority but growing number of women. What began as a tentative titter at the edge of the national awareness has become one great, good-natured American guffaw...
...ARMY's the only goddam thing holding this country together," says a West Point cadet in Ward Just's Military...