Word: zipped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real hunters in Siberia and see how they live, how they battle with nature and how they prepare their food. It will be very interesting to live among these courageous people." Then it was off to romp in the snow, pose for photographers on a sled and zip down a children's playground slide on a rug. "I want to tell you the same thing I tell Cuban children," he cooed to a bevy of Russian towheads. "Learn well, and master knowledge so as to set an example to all the children of the world...
...attack, the Bruins just do what comes naturally-zip downcourt and shoot. Even the defense is quicksilver. Wooden spent all fall developing a new "zone press"-an attacking defense something like pro football's "red-dog." Wooden's defenders begin harassing enemy guards as soon as they reach midcourt, trying to force wild throws, lob passes or bounce passes that can be intercepted. Two weeks ago, the Bruins were trailing Washington State 15-14 when Wooden ordered them into the press. U.C.L.A. opened up a 61-28 half-time bulge, and went on to a 121-77 victory...
...style dress to give his State-of-the-Union message to Congress, President Johnson urges that the moon be renamed "Kennedy" and then invites all legislators and their wives to a "real slambang" pit barbecue on the White House Lawn. The Bell Telephone Company announces that five-digit postal ZIP codes will be substituted for three-digit area codes "in order to lessen the number of codes a person must remember...
Alarmed at growing rumors among undergraduates that Johnson's Glo-Coat Floor Wax will induce mystic visions if it is heated and its fumes inhaled, Dana Farns worth and Dean Monro issue a stern warning against "this new form of sin." The Postmaster-General announces the discontinuation of the ZIP code system "because our own employees cannot learn it." Bell Telephone, having just completed the nationwide substitution of ZIP codes for area codes is reported annoyed" but says it is confident its employees can learn five simple numbers...
Charles de Gaulle is said to be "irked" by attempts of President Johnson to lure Pope Paul VI and the Holy See to Johnson City, Texas. Johnson refuses to comment but announces an executive order directing the Bell Telephone Company to drop ZIP codes "because I can't remember them." Richard Nixon calls a press conference to disclose the report of his advisory staff. Its conclusion, he says, is that "I should not become a candidate for public office...