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...nervous as a kid getting his first haircut. But shearers imperturbably plunk the animals down on their backsides. Then, clutching a forefoot in one hand and huge barber clippers in the other, they race through the shearing, rolling fleece off the sheep's belly like carpenters planing wood. Afterward, spectators see that careless shearers gouge into the tender skin, leaving traces of blood. "If it looks like Raggedy Ann you know one of these young shearers has done it," says Courser, snapping the gallus of his overalls. "You want to get the fleece off 'em without having...
Ravenel had seldom known this sort of misfortune in his earlier years. A native of Charleston, S.C., he was First Marshal of his class at Harvard, and later entered Harvard Business School. Afterward, he became a successful investment banker on Wall St. and a White House Fellow...
...just kicked the ball around today, and we just got beat," Park said afterward. And that was about all that was left to say on a day that was, in a word, pitiful...
Apparently missing the point, an angry Meany thundered that any guidelines were interference in the collective bargaining process. According to one participant, the President's lips were white with anger as he left the room for his next appointment. Meany said afterward: "We feel that the pressure should be put on the prices rather than the wages." And as for the whole anti-inflation program, he said, "It's not my job to try and make it work...
...Daoud and his advisers since they themselves seized power in 1973 were battered by a ring of rebel tanks supported by rocketing planes. Daoud, his aides, their wives and children, and many members of the 2,000-man palace guard were either killed as the compound fell or executed afterward...