Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...post office run to talk to Russell Piper in his tiny dry-cleaning plant. The steam and heat built up a coat of ice an inch or more thick on the windows. He was a shadowy figure behind the glacial facade. But he offered a cup of hot chocolate and unquenchable cheer, even working through the night cleaning other people's grease spots. Rural culture lived through...
Since June a band of thieves in the Los Angeles area has staged more than 30 violent raids on travel agencies. The gang demands blank tickets and the validation plates that print airline identifications, then sells thousands of hot tickets on the black market at a 50% discount. During heists in recent weeks, two female employees were raped, one agent was knifed and another killed...
...stolen tickets, many of them to expensive locations in Central and South America. One agency was debited $47,000 for tickets taken last June. The local chapter of the American Society of Travel Agents has asked airlines to install $1,500 computer scanners at boarding gates to identify the hot tickets. Three weeks ago, when thieves held up Van Nuys travel agent Alfredo Vaca for the second time, he refused to surrender any more blanks, convinced that the losses would put him out of business. The robbers shot him dead...
INTERNATIONAL BALLOON FESTIVAL. More hot air than any convention on earth. Hundreds of giant rainbow-hued balloons converge on Albuquerque (or just above it) for the largest annual ballooning extravaganza...
Columbia's hot hand these days is in TV production, where it is a leading producer of network series. The studio has eleven such programs in production, including Who's the Boss? and Designing Women. The division has a library of 23,000 TV episodes from which Sony can pick candidates for syndication and videocassette sales. Columbia also owns the 820-screen Loew's theater chain...