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R3ACE
SOUND COMING
MAN ON CAMERA
More than three hundred entries have begun what is
called the longest and coldest snowmobile race ever
held. NBC newsman Chuck Henry reports from
Anchorage, Alaska.TAPE IN HERE
SOUND TILL END
1:12 CLOSE WITH "CHUCK HENRY,
NBC NEWS, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA."
MAN ON CAMERA
Incidentally, the man DID say 115 degrees below zero.
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We asked Harold Taft, our
weatherman, if that figure might be incorrect. And
been
he said it was, that the reporter must have l r
E XXX balking about the chill factor, which takes
wind velocity into consideration. And to prove his
point, Harold offered these statistics: The lowest
world temperature ever recorded is 127 degrees below
zero in Antarctica. Lowest temperature in Alaska
is 76 below. And the lowest ever recorded in the
United States, excluding Alaska, is 70 below atVIDEO TAPE 1;12
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Race], script, January 10, 1969; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1147500/m1/1/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.