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Times Square simmers in July. Dodging early morning traffic on what always seems the hottest day of the summer, I wait for the ugly melody of the construction worker's yell at dawn. The faces stare back at me--a tired traffic cop; the bag lady, waking from a night's sleep in front of a burnt-out marquee; the sleazy bum waiting for Caesar's massage parlor to open its doors to all his lust. By the end of the summer I told time by these people. Their habits were so fixed that I knew I was late...
...other upstate New York teams are in the playoff picture. Colgate, one of the hottest teams in the East, has clinched the number seven spot. The other spot remains up for grabs, but if Cornell (10-11) beats B.U. at Walter Brown tomorrow night they're in. If not, Maine--in its first season of Division 1 play--will make the playoffs with a record of 10-11-1. HARVARD VARSITY HOCKEY STATS...
...hottest debate on low pass rates is going on now in New Jersey. Nearly 53% of the 1,491 people who took that state's test last July struck out; five years earlier, a mere 17% failed. Yet today's students are no dolts. Says Paul Tractenberg, a Rutgers law professor: "For the most part, they are as diligent and in some ways more driven now than earlier." One cause of the high fail rate is a 1976 decision to alter the grading. Before, any student who answered 140 of the multiple-choice questions correctly passed automatically...
According to its promoters, the hottest new franchise field around now is tanning clinics. These are shops equipped with ultraviolet-lighted booths and promising that regular sessions of 60 seconds or more will give winter-wan patrons a healthy summer glow. At least a dozen outfits bearing such names as Tantalize, Tantrific Sun and Tan Four Seasons have opened scores of the indoor bronzeries in the past twelve months...
...would call what is going on in the art mart today "cultural exploitation" rather than a trend of collecting. Did you know that the U.S. ranks as the No. 1 exploiter of primitive art? Primitive art is the hottest thing on the market right now, and your article barely mentions...