Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking of legislative bodies, John David Barber, Professor of Political Science at Yale, wrote in his book. The Lawmakers, "Members believe they should be especially careful to keep their commitments, and they stress the importance of holding conflict at the level of issues, not personalities...
Owls and Mice. But survival for Bogus is a haphazard undertaking at best. An unsuccessful attempt at infidelity becomes a mad, nude chase across the Iowa countryside that leaves Bogus with bleeding feet, if not a bleeding heart. Homeward bound, he falls off a bicycle in front of a barber shop and sardonically observes: "Several sheeted men raised their shaved skulls above the backs of their barber chairs, watching me writhe on the sidewalk as if they were owls-and me, a club-footed mouse...
...Rome, 2,000 happy hairdressers gathered for an audience with Pope Paul VI heard kind words for their profession and their patron saint, the 17th century Peruvian mulatto St. Martin de Porres, who had once been apprenticed to a barber. St. Martin, said the Pope, was "an example to imitate, an encouragement to bring to your profession willingness and helpfulness." Hairdressing, concluded the Pope, offers "abundant opportunities to help many people recognize the goodness...
JAMES DAVID BARBER...
...Frank Sturgis, 37, another Bay of Pigs operative, who has since built a ripe career as a soldier of fortune. The other men arrested were anti-Castro Cubans: Eugenio Martinez, 49, a Miami real estate broker employed by Barker's firm, and Virgilio Gonzalez, 46, a barber before he fled Castro's Cuba who is now, interestingly enough, a locksmith. It was suspected that two lookouts escaped. Late in the week McCord was freed on bail. but the other four remained in jail...