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...worst of these is the United States Post Office Department. A few years ago they instituted zone numbers and now the second step in their program is revealed in the form of the heinous ZIP Code. In order to head off the loosely organized foes of numerification, the post office is carrying on a large-scale public relations program, including the biggest mass mailing in history. They have even gone so far as to devise a little ZIP Code anthem, arranged for the music of "Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah," a sacred tune which once signified the beauty of life...
...hospital in Winston-Salem, 20 miles away. State troopers had joined Lexington police and firemen by then. Using fire hoses, they drove away the crowd. Next day seven young Lexington Negroes and twelve whites were arrested. Police said the Negroes were armed with a zip gun, a shotgun and a sawed-off .22 caliber rifle...
...Zip my pants up, shout...
...Zip-uh-de-doodah...
Some Hawaiians fear that the exodus of Big Five capital bodes ill for Hawaii's continued growth. Hawaii's economy, which has recently lost some of its zip, rests precariously on four principal sources of income-sugar, pineapples, tourism, and military spending. Any decrease in agricultural income without offsetting increases in tourism and military spending, would be a serious blow and critics of the Big Five argue that by taking their know-how abroad, the companies may actually help foreign producers to cut into Hawaiian pineapple and sugar sales. In rebuttal, defenders of the Big Five insist that...