Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...negotiate for badly needed French arms, it did not know that the task was already nearly completed-by the French themselves. The man behind the move: French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes. his agent extraordinary: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, author of the popular comedy, The Barber of Seville. Together, they have been maneuvering for well over a year to win greater support for the American Patriots...
Officials in London may be excused if they are confused by the whole scheme. Figaro, the Barber of Seville, is a master of disguises and deceptions in a good cause. So, apparently, is his creator Beaumarchais...
Frances Noel Barber...
...morning last week. General Juan José Torres, 56, who served as a leftist President of Bolivia for ten months before being ousted by a military coup in August 1971, left his apartment in Buenos Aires to visit his barber. After getting a haircut, he told his wife, he planned to call on a friend whose mother had died recently. Torres never had a chance to offer his condolences. Roughly 38 hours after he left home, his body was found beside a bridge on a highway 60 miles from the Argentine capital. The former President had been shot three times...
...Professional sport is in fact no more violent than it used to be. The beanball has been with us since baseball began. Back in 1920, Cleveland Indian Ray Chapman was killed by Yankee Carl Mays' fastball. Twenty years ago Giant Pitcher Sal Maglie was given the sobriquet "the Barber" because of the close shaves his fastball gave the faces of hitters. Don Drysdale, a Dodger star of the '60s, was famed as a fastballing headhunter. Basketball, theoretically a noncontact sport and one pleasantly peopled with college types, long had its "hit" men, players like Boston's Jungle...