Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 01:50:52 -0400

From: "Barry A. Popik" Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: POLITICAL CLIMATE; LOO; AUTOMOBILE; HIGH BALL



Some stuff on some topics of interest:



POLITICAL WEATHER (or CLIMATE)

Politicians check out the "political weather" or "climate" for political

races, bills, and such, yet Safire's New Political Dictionary doesn't even

have this.

This is from Punch, 18 September 1897, pg. 124, col. 1, and is

accompanied with a drawing of William Harcourt in Roman robes opening an

umbrella:



SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT ON "POLITICAL WEATHER."

(With apologies to the Young Person of the "Daily Graphic.")



["The political weather is very much like the natural weather.....I

believe that in public affairs you will see a great change before

long."--Recent Speech at Malwood.]



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