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...Hotter Meetings. When it comes to the customers, Kappel is often more puzzled than angered by complaints. He admits that A.T.&T. made a tactical error in pushing all-numeral dialing without a public educational campaign. By abandoning the familiar exchange prefixes (Klondike, Pennypacker, Gypsy) and forcing users to dial seven numbers, A.T.&T. raised the possible total of phone numbers in any area by 50%. But it also raised an uproar, was soon accused on all sides of an Orwellian scheme to dehumanize everyday life-even though it would really have had to dehumanize life by ultimately limiting service...
...lineup-shuffling, "Vinton is hotter than a firecracker right now. He's been playing beautiful squash for the last week; I don't care who Princeton plays at number two, Vinton will be as good...
...Last week the bogus liquidators were hotter than they wanted to be. New York State's attorney general won a court order dissolving a Manhattan firm with the impressive name of U.S. Liquidators Inc., which had sold 16,000 cheap transistor radios that it claimed were drastically marked down for liquidation; the company was fined $500 and forced to refund the price of all its unfilled orders. And more action is on the way. The F.T.C. plans to take steps against another operator next month, and the' U.S. Post Office is seeking indictments of two others for fraud...
Against Cornell, the Crimson started out hotter than a two-dollar pistol, as they made every shot they took in the first four minutes of play and raced into a 15-5 lead. But, as one member of the team admitted, Harvard didn't seem to believe that beating Cornell was possible. With a ten-point lead they still didn't believe it. The Big Red scored 11 straight and gradually increased their margin to 40-33 at the half, driving repeatedly through Harvard's porous defense for easy baskets...
...toss its heavier load 1,000 extra miles, the A-3 packs more thrust and less deadweight. First-stage fuel, made by Aerojet General Corp., is denser, so that more can be carried in the same space. It is also more powerful, producing a hotter flame (6,300 to 6,600° F.) and more thrust. The casing that restrains its pressure (800 to 900 lbs. per sq. in.) has been lightened by making it out of filament-wound glass fiber instead of metal...