Word: zipped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CORNERBACKS. James Hunter, Grambling, 6 ft. 3 in., 194 lbs.; and Mike Haynes, Arizona State, 6 ft. 3 in., 195 lbs. With the speed of summer lightning, Hunter is the dream cornerback. A favorite tactic is to zip up to the line and stun runners trying to sweep around the end. When he intercepts a pass, Hunter takes off like a running back. Haynes is another return threat who led the country in interceptions (eleven) when he was a junior. The scouts say that Pat Thomas, Texas A. & M., 5 ft. 10 in., 180 lbs., is also a cornerback...
...three piece white suit and protested that "Kentucky's got a lotta country folks got no address 'cept Boone County." The credentials committee finally gave in after the Kentuckians threatened to stall the entire convention by examining all the address sheets of other states for missing items like zip codes...
...bumpers of gas-guzzling regular cars at stop lights or highway ramps for a free ride. Another Californian, Mick McMick, urged that Los Angeles be put on "a revolving 'lazy Susan' for easy access all around." John Cody of Lynnfield, Mass., proposed a suction-tube system to "zip" commuters from suburbia to their city offices. Ed Hunter of Dayton, Ohio, felt that giant slingshots hi the suburbs could catapult commuters into outsized baseball catcher's mitts downtown: "Use baby oil to keep the mitt soft," he advised...
...youths who are terrorizing the cities often belong to gangs, but gone are the old-style rumbles with switchblade knives and zip guns (see box page 12). Even criminals are frightened to work the streets in big-city areas. "I myself walk light when I'm in the ghetto," says...