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Most recruits were given a few hours of training and shipped off to the nearest fire, but the BLM designated 50 of that morning's volunteers as a special "Hotshot" unit with the hope that a little more formal schooling would turn them into an elite outfit like the trained crews from native villages. The men were paid $45 a day and allowed to vegetate for a week at the smokejumper base under the guise of intensive training...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Why Not Let the Forests Burn? | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

Much-storied Yale football star Brian Dowling and hitherto unheralded Harvard ace Frank Champi matched vocal cunning on Saturday's quiz show, Dating Game, and both lost out to some hotshot from the West Coast with a moustache...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Champi, Dowling Draw Again, 0-0 | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

...such answers were not enough to turn the heart of the girl who got to choose. She went for the hotshot, who had introduced himself in French...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Champi, Dowling Draw Again, 0-0 | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

George Romney may not be a hotshot bowler, but he is no quitter. To knock down all ten duckpins at an alley at Franklin, N.H., he took 34 balls. Pursuing his presidential hopes, Romney is proving every whit as persistent. In a valiant effort to blunt the 3-to-l edge enjoyed by Richard Nixon in the Granite State's March 12th Republican primary, Romney last week wound up his first five days of campaigning with 11,826 hands shaken and a firm belief that reports of his imminent political death are premature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Romney Rediyivus | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...fact Cornell's hotshot divers Jay Moses and Tom Paxton swept their event in a December meet with Eastern leader Yale, and either one of them could snap the five-meet winning streak of Harvard ace Bill Murphy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Should Drown Cornell; Skaters Face Hot and Col Brown | 2/11/1967 | See Source »

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