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Since mid-June, the heat-humid, tropical, inescapable-had pressed down on great areas of the U.S. In the region around the Great Lakes, in New England and the middle Atlantic coast, the hottest summer on record was in the making. It had been equally hot or hotter in the South and parts of the Southwest, where such weather is more normal, but not more bearable. Last week, temperatures pushed even higher...
...After two months of almost unbroken heat, the weather got hotter & hotter. A 40 & 8 band from Flint, Mich, marched in an American Legion parade in Detroit in diapers and baby hats. In big-city slums, thousands slept on rooftops and fire escapes. Then over the weekend, a cold air mass moved in at last and made life bearable...
...time Gerhart walked into Bow Street Police Court this week he was-in an international sort of way-hotter than a sheriff's pistol. He was ordered to show cause why he should not be extradited to the U.S., and put in jail without bail for the eight days until the hearing begins...
With competition in the U.S. television industry growing hotter by the day, manufacturers were cudgeling their brains for new ways to trim costs and prices. In Chicago, Admiral Corp.'s quick-stepping President Ross Siragusa thought he knew a good way to do it. On the big, fancy-looking console jobs, about one-third of the cost went into furniture. Why not start cutting there...
Georgia's crafty Carl Vinson hit the roof. As chairman of the House Armed Services Committee he had been getting hotter & hotter at Johnson's methods. After a hurried visit to Johnson's office, he came back to Capitol Hill with Johnson's abject surrender in writing-and to be sure about it, read it into the record on the House floor...