Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passed the House May 7 by a 293-to-115 margin, the Democratic leaders put off until June 10 attempts to override it. As of last week they clearly did not have the two-thirds majority needed to break the veto. "We may back into an energy policy," says Barber Conable, a New York Republican member of Ways and Means. "By the Democrats' failing to block the President, we may get a partial policy...
Died. Moe Howard, 78, last survivor of the original Three Stooges slapstick comedy team; of lung cancer; in Hollywood. His black bangs cropped as if his barber had used a chamber pot, Moe cheerfully assaulted colleagues Larry, Curly and Shemp through more than 200 1930s farces, whacking them with mallets, tweaking noses, kicking shins, and deftly delivering thousands of the two-fingered eye punches that became his trademark, and endeared him in the 1950s to the first generation of television children...
Engaged. John Daley, 28, sixth of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's seven children; and Mary Lou Briatta, 28, daughter of Louis Briatta, an ex-barber once linked to gambling in the Loop. The romance bloomed last winter amid the bumper stickers of campaign headquarters, where young John, a prospering insurance broker, helped with hizzoner's re-election drive and Ms. Briatta served as a volunteer...
Died. Richard Conte, 59, veteran Hollywood heavy; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. An Italian barber's son from the mean streets of Jersey City, Conte started out on Broadway, then went on to a 30-year film career playing gangsters (Cry of the City), grim-faced war heroes (Purple Heart, Guadalcanal Diary) and other macho roles (including Susan Hayward's sadistic husband in I'll Cry Tomorrow). Although he struggled to break into romantic or comedy leads, Conte remained typecast in hard-guy roles, most recently as the tight-lipped Mafia chieftain Don Barzini...
John Herschfield missed both of his bouts as he went down 0-2 for the night. Matt Simmons picked up one as did Sam Anderson and John Barber, who fenced well in his only bout in the match...