At how many rpm does a long-playing record spin?

A long-awaited snow begins to fall at a Vermont ski lodge at the end of which 1954 holiday classic? Which word means both a long home run and political pull? Which word names a metal pole used to divert lightning, as invented by Benjamin Franklin? A "long" one is 2,240 pounds, and a "short" one is 2,000. What is it? A long siege at which military base in 1954 marked the end of French power in Indochina? A long-whiskered owlet is so rare it has its own genus, Xenoglaux, meaning which kind of owl? What is a lopsided victory in an election called? Walt Whitman sounded his "barbaric" what "over the roofs of the world"?