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elleng

(130,156 posts)
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 02:54 PM Aug 2017

ABC News in 1979 looks forward to 2017's solar eclipse.

"May the shadow of the moon fall on a world at peace."

Frank Reynolds anchored from New York, with live reports from former science correspondence Jules Bergman and reporter Bob Miller. Live images from Portland, Oregon, Washington state's Goldendale Observatory and Helena, Montana.

http://boingboing.net/2017/08/17/abc-news-in-1979-looks-forward.html

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ABC News in 1979 looks forward to 2017's solar eclipse. (Original Post) elleng Aug 2017 OP
Total eclipses are said to be portend a difficult year ahead sandensea Aug 2017 #1
Even more difficult than this year? Sneederbunk Aug 2017 #3
Yes - in the sense that plans will tend to go awry far more easily due to unforeseen circumstance sandensea Aug 2017 #4
i was a student at wash state university and we had cloudy skies..:(( samnsara Aug 2017 #2
Yes, we did pokerfan Aug 2017 #8
I can remember Frank Reynolds... Sadly, he died just four years later in 1983 hlthe2b Aug 2017 #5
That was great. Renew Deal Aug 2017 #6
You're welcome, Renew Deal. elleng Aug 2017 #7
Kick. dalton99a Aug 2017 #9

sandensea

(21,530 posts)
1. Total eclipses are said to be portend a difficult year ahead
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 03:04 PM
Aug 2017

for whatever country they are most visible over - above all for whomever's head of state. 1979-80 was a good example.



Carter issuing his much-derided "malaise" speech in July 1979. He never used the word; but it stuck.

sandensea

(21,530 posts)
4. Yes - in the sense that plans will tend to go awry far more easily due to unforeseen circumstance
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 03:35 PM
Aug 2017

It should be an interesting year for Cheeto - and a very entertaining one for us here on DU (watch your stock market investments, if any, though).

hlthe2b

(101,730 posts)
5. I can remember Frank Reynolds... Sadly, he died just four years later in 1983
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 04:45 PM
Aug 2017

Perhaps he now gets the "birds-eye" view...

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