Word: hops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...east, smugglers from the Portuguese colony of Mozambique make their way through the wild, mountainous bush to bring in dagga weed (marijuana) and take out gold stolen by workmen in Rhodesian mines. Last week the harried border guards had a new chore: to prevent the smuggling of hops into Southern Rhodesia. At Beitbridge, on the Limpopo River, a customs officer dutifully searched the luggage of a vacationer returning from South Africa, then whispered, "Man, what does a hop look like? No one here has ever seen...
Coach Jack Barnaby was pleased with John Vinton's effort during his loss to Niederhoffer. Having overcome the dismaying spurts of lackadasical play that had nearly cost him his match with Dartmouth's best, Hop Potter, Vinton controlled the center of the court most of the time and succumbed only to Niederhoffer's extra speed and finesse...
Died. Françoise de Moriere, 29, a French girl working as a stewardess for Allegheny Airlines; in a rare and eerie aircraft mishap; near Hartford, Conn. As Allegheny's short-hop Convair approached Hartford's Bradley Field, a loose cabin door in the rear of the plane suddenly blew open; rapid decompression popped her through the opening and to her death on an open field 1,500 ft. below. "She was gone in a flash," said a passenger. "Not a cry-not a word...
Anne J. d'Harnoncourt '65 taught "American Tribal Dancing," which featured the Bunny-hop and Hokey-Pokey. During the summer, the program's emphasis is on community centers, where men, women, and children too young for government schools can learn valuable skills, prominent among which is English. A popular course offered to Tanganyikans this summer was the "direct method" of teaching English, originated by Professor I.A. Richards...
Kansas City's Soc-Hop, owned and operated by a policeman and his brother-inlaw, requires an admission card that can be yanked for unruly conduct, is guarded by husky doormen who watch for "suspicious bulges"' that might be liquor bottles...