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Principal Burner. A little more honesty on all sides might, in fact, go a long way toward cooling the ghettos this summer. Speaking to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, Betty Furness, the President's adviser on consumer affairs, noted that gouging of slum residents by merchants and markets-an unsavory but common practice-is "a principal burner under any long hot summer." She added later: "The poor are paying more. The proof was right here in the streets two weeks ago," when rioters selectively burned and looted stores they considered unfair...
...fire began in a pan of wax which someone was melting over a hot plate, Mrs. Jo J. Heunemann, dorm resident, said yesterday. The burner was left on overnight, and the wax burst into flame, she added. A wall beside the hot plate was charred, but the fire activated the sprinkler system before any further damage was done...
...very fact that they were reviewing the overturned conviction seemed a sign that the court's majority did not agree with the First Circuit's reasoning. In an earlier case, the court had allowed the Second Circuit's affirmation of the conviction of Card Burner David Miller to stand without interference. Any remaining hopes that O'Brien may have had must have waned when the justices began questioning his attorney...
...about 11 p.m. yesterday the chimney of the Harvard Square Theatre belched out the first of several blasts of smoke from a fire caused by a leaky oil burner...
Several explosions sent smoke gushing from the theatre as firemen fought to shut off the oil burner. The smoke did little damage and no one was hurt. The fire trucks departed shortly before midnight. The theatre was empty at the time of the first blast...