Word: terps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basketball. It never used to be this way, of course. Maryland did not have Tom McMillen. Or Mo Elmore. Or Helicopter Brown. Or any of the handpicked 6-8, 6-10 and 6-11 dudes from New York City. Springfield Gardens or Mansfield, Pa., that were playing for the Terp varsity last week when Maryland invited St. John's, Western Kentucky and Harvard down to play in the first Maryland Invitational Tournament...
...Juan workshop, Designer Gonzalo Chavez, 36, a native New Yorker who calls himself Mr. Terp, has been painstakingly assembling pop-top rings into glittering dresses, vests, stoles, belts, miniskirts and maxiskirts-all resembling the mailed armor worn by warriors of the Middle Ages to ward off sword blows. Collecting the rings from rubbish heaps behind San Juan bars, Chavez files down their rough edges' and crochets them together with silver thread. It is a slow process. When he began making the pop-tops last spring, it took Chavez a day to complete a 600-ring vest 20 inches long...