Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...island republic of Singapore recently proclaimed itself "a bastion of resistance to the social pollution of hippies." Last week, after Singapore police arrested three long-haired youths from neighboring Malaysia, the young men were held in jail for 17 hours until they consented to being given short haircuts. A barber was duly fetched, and each of the young Malaysians was required to pay 330 to have his long locks trimmed. When the shorn youths returned home, their countrymen were outraged-and reacted accordingly. The Malaysian government delivered a stern protest note to Singapore's ranking diplomatic representative in Kuala...
Judges were C. L. Barber, dean of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Ron Loewinsohn, a poet who has just published a book of collected works entitled Meat Air; and Joanne Dempsey, a tutor in English...
Takara has 70% of the U.S. market and worldwide sales of $25 million. Last year it opened an assembly plant in Somerset, N.J., and acquired the barber-chair subsidiary of Koken Companies, Inc. of St. Louis. Today there is only one large U.S.-owned manufacturer left: Paidar. The company once held 70% of the market, but now it is so troubled that President Nixon has ordered that it be given special Government...
...enter the U.S. market, during his daily prayer periods. Takara's $1,000,000 "Beautilion" at the Osaka World's Fair is a futuristic pile of steel tubing and rounded capsules that reflects Yoshikawa's flamboyant sense of promotion. On one floor, 48 barber chairs shaped like lotus leaves lift visitors nine feet in the air to see a psychedelic display projected on the ceiling; the wailing sound track incorporates the voice of Yoshikawa in prayer...
Though he is almost as bald as a Boy Scout's knee, Yoshikawa never misses his weekly trip to the barber, who trims what tendrils are left and gives him a massage. More weekly haircuts, he asserts, could improve the chances for world peace because "neatness induces a repose in the mind." Unless, of course, one happens to be a Takara competitor...