Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAST FALL a group a gadflies made things pretty hot for the management of the Harvard Cooperative Society. Although the organizers and supporters of the alternate slate for Board of Directors fell short in their bid to attract a quorum to the annual meeting, the Coop directors heard and took to heart the ideas generated by their opposition. Besides being concerned with the Coop's internal policies, the alternate slate, organized by Wesley E. Profit '69 and Steven P. Roose '70, was interested in improving the Coop's relationship with the larger community of Cambridge and Boston...
...buyers, especially those who may spend anywhere from $2,000 to $8,000 for a lemon, would certainly agree. Yet the same buyers make improved quality control difficult by insisting on speed and styling at the lowest possible price. In the hot competition for customers, the need to squeeze every last dollar out of production prompts automakers to cut costs in designing their cars. An innovation that endangered 2,500,000 of the cars in last month's G.M. recall was a cam used to regulate the engine's idling speed. It was designed in plastic, which enabled...
...exciting cultural life, which means that Harvard is within two hours of a museum and symphony orchestra. But there is more. Harvard has hippies, political "activists," Al Vellucci, the Freedom Trail, House sports, and things like HSA which is "a conglomeration of student-run agencies selling everything from hot dogs...to information on the college scene." The college scene info, I presume, is the HSA Student Calendar...
...have protracted business in the market. Travel between the center and the villages is frequent and routine. Each paraje has its own political structure, and the political system in the municipio draws on all the parajes. The Zinacantecos have an agricultural economy, but their cornfields are in Tierra Caliente ("hot country") at a lower altitude. Wealth is measured in corn, and it is a staple food as well as the most marketable product in San Cristobal...
...Tony Maier). Dona Sirena the matchmaker (Lucy Raudenbush), a magnificent grande dame whose social position is somewhat frayed for lack of funds, turns a blind, pragmatic eye to the goings-on of her niece Columbine (Anne Pederson). Miss Pederson's voice is sometimes weak, but she plays a very hot little piece...