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Some 1,100 Senators, Congressmen, major and minor office holders and society folk trooped into the annual Mardi Gras thrown by the Louisiana State Society and captained by Louisiana's Senator Russell Long. They little expected the zip and zeal with which ebullient Russ Long enveloped them-particularly since he had invited them to bring their own liquor. But as they crowded around 96 tables under a ceiling billowing in balloons and confetti, the din raced into high decibels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Mardi Gras on the Potomac | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

This year, as the big engines splatted into life, the big word was not speed but acceleration. Since almost any new U.S. car can easily top 100 m.p.h., Detroit was interested in showing that its family cars also have the zip to whip away from a stop light and spin up to the legal speed limit in a minimum length of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carfair | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Peace talks were not broken off. But they lacked the optimistic zip of yesterday's prestrike negotiations. The nation's top labor peacemaker, James F. Finnegan, national director of federal mediation, remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revamped Resolution on Mideast Approved by Senate Committees; Strike Paralyzes Eastern Ports | 2/14/1957 | See Source »

This statistic may have been misleading. There are no zip gun wars here such as those in New York, and the crimes committed here are probably slightly less serious in nature. But the problem is simply this: a greater number of teenagers in this area seem to commit unlawful and anti-social acts than in any comparable area in the country...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: A Cancer in Cambridge: Juvenile Delinquency | 1/25/1957 | See Source »

Linemen Bob Owen and Bob McVey will be the starting blue-line pair as part of a move to "add more zip to the Crimson's attack," Weiland said. Aggressive sophomore Paul Kelley will be on the first line beside Bob Cleary and Lyle Guttu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet Faces Norwich, Middlebury | 12/14/1956 | See Source »

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