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...eluding pursuers. After throwing the hides out of his pickup truck as a posse closed in, he dove into a Louisiana bayou, swam across the border to Texas and holed up there for six months before being captured. Another, who is now serving a long jail sentence, used to zip across the swamps in a shallow boat that could reach speeds of 85 m.p.h...
...Reapers. Each clique has from 20 to 50 members ruled by a president, vice president and warlord. Their "colors," elaborate coats-of-arms stitched to the backs of their denim jackets, depict bloody skeletons and skulls, fire and lightning. Their arsenals include not only clubs, chains, knives and zip guns but also Molotov cocktails, rifles, shotguns and, say youth workers, hand grenades and machine guns...
...great and loose and easy, there is so much to see from the car window, baking, gleaming out there, that the driving, the perpetual motion, takes over. Get a good cigar, flip on the air conditioner and the FM radio, shut out the world with your windows and zip on down the freeway lulled by Carmen McRae, by the air whistling to get out the window crack, by the distant hum of the tires, zip past the palms and the houses at a standstill in the sun and float on the air on your shocks, free, rootless, just going-like...
Should a pianist be paid more if he manages to zip through a concert in half the usual time? The answer, obviously, is no, but the question is not as silly as it sounds. The pay increases that the Government allows during Phase II are supposed to be tied largely to productivity -the value of output per man-hour...
...California Democrat John Tunney: "It's become a stylized dance-almost like Kabuki." Eagleton ruefully admitted: "To many of our colleagues our arguments are old hat. There's a tendency to sit back and say, 'Well, here we go again.' The issue has lost its zip...