Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your statement that Communist gunners are so expert that they can fire 25 rounds per minute from 82-mm. mortars [March 15] seems a bit farfetched. Exceeding eight or ten rounds per minute is inviting the weapon to melt and ornament your homemade sandals with white-hot metal. Also, your reference to the fine quality of the AK-47 is somewhat discolored. Not only does the AK-47 overheat rapidly, as you stated, it also jams twice as fast as any U.S. weapon, including the M16, because of the cheap stamp ing of the gas cylinder. You mention that...
Evergreen has also joined the ranks of bidders for hot political memoirs. Its first catch was Kim Philby, the British master spy, for whose reminiscences it paid more than $50,000; the first installment appears in the April issue. With only marginal advertising, Evergreen does not quite break even by charging $1 an issue. But by developing young writers in the magazine, Rosset stands to recover his investment when they become popular and he publishes their books...
...toilet. Every cell has a solid wood door, with a small peek-hole, and an uncovered bucket for toilet purposes. In the morning the men bring their buckets to a central depository. . . . There is not a thermostat in the entire 87-year-old institution. When it is too hot, the windows are opened. When it is too cold, there is no relief...
...Last December the temperature in three hospital sections fell to 39 in the daytime. . . . The superintendent and his men brought in a hay dryer from the barn, rigged it up Rube Goldberg style, and this helped push hot air to the sections involved . . . water coming into the hospital has been found to be polluted...
Besides McClung--who would set a new single-season scoring mark in 1964--Harvard had a good basketball team that season. Coach Floyd Wilson had a hot-shot sophomore gunner named Keith Sedlacek, two good big men in Barry Williams and captain Bob Inman. Leo Scully, a 6-1 junior playmaker kept the machine running smoothly...