Cool Off. Read This.

Hoping for cooler weather? No doubt, though perhaps not as quite cool as the record set at the Vostok research station deep inside the Antarctic interior on July 21, 1983. The Associated Press reported: ''Soviet explorers in Antarctica, experiencing conditions like 'the eternal cold of outer space,' have recorded a temperature of 128.6 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, a record low, the official press agency Tass reported today. It said the record was registered Thursday on platinum thermometers outside the Soviet research station Vostok, where the previous record, 126.9 below, was recorded on Aug. 24, 1960.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]