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...only does the College have a strong program (the Crimson stickmen finished high in the NCAA's two years ago, and dominated the ECAC last year), but in Boston-Cambridge, hockey is right up there next to God, and hockey players are revered as near saints. Boston is the hottest of hockey hotbeds in the United States, and this enthusiasm extends to the college level. Harvard rarely plays to a less-than-packed Watson Rink, and the rivalries with Boston University and Cornell are unsurpassed, even in the pro ranks. The only drawback to the Harvard program from the hockey...
Billy Graham? Oral Roberts? Not quite. The speaker is Lester Maddox, former Governor and now Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, onetime wielder of ax handles to keep blacks away from his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta, and one of the hottest speakers these days on the U.S. fundamentalist circuit...
Funds never have rolled in for Downey. His fourth and best-known film, the ad-game satire Putney Swope, had a modestly profitable return at the box office, but Downey remained less than the hottest ticket in Hollywood. His next film, Pound, was shown in approximately four cities, double-billed with some unsavory horror pictures...
...sales volume 9% in the quarter ending last May, but it reported a $20 million loss. In its last fiscal year, Finast showed a deficit of $689,000. Kroger reported a 10% earnings dip in its June interim report, and Grand Union a drop of 38%. The war is hottest in the East and Midwest, where A. & P. is strongest. On the West Coast, where discounting has been practiced for years, many chains are in the black, including Safeway, which registered a first-quarter earnings gain...
...when even the tune seems to have gone out of other musicals, Papp's Two Gentlemen of Verona, a high-spirited rock romp, has been a huge success. A kind of joke among his more profit-conscious colleagues a few years ago, Papp now has one of the hottest tickets in town in Two Gents. To multiply his injury to Broadway's pride, this year his plays monopolized the major theater prizes, taking assorted Tonys and New York Drama Critics Awards...