Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ability to play Blue Grass can be measured by the number of years he has been away from Bill Monroe. It would be a little easier for others to imitate his music if they had his famous Gibson P-5 mandolin; Bill bought it 25 years ago from a barber shop in Miami for $125. He has been offered $20,000 for it, but it will stay with him. There are few if any at all which can match it for clarity and volume-"It makes the sound I want to play," says Bill...
...combat veteran of World War II, Wyche is married to a schoolteacher, and they have two grown children. He was a barber for 40 years, starting his career at the age of ten. But for years he wanted to be a cop; he is an avid Perry Mason fan. He plans to run for reelection, and blacks are filing for other local offices, including mayor. Whites are nervous at the prospect of black domination, but Wyche claims that he wants only a fair chance for blacks. Says he: "We got to prove to white people we can do a whole...
Among his decisions for civil rights plaintiffs was a 1962 order that the rest rooms, counters and waiting rooms at Tallahassee airport be desegregated. In 1965, he ordered his own Tallahassee barber to cut black customers' hair. Civil rights activists complained that these decisions were painfully slow, in contrast to his quick handling of criminal litigation. But while the plaintiffs thought he dallied, the whites in Tallahassee complained that he was moving too rapidly. In most of his reversed decisions, Carswell had stuck closely to the letter of the law in ruling against civil rights plaintiffs. Thus...
...Only his barber knows for sure, and Steve Martini, who has been tending presidential locks for 18 years, is certain that Nixon has never tampered with his hair. He not only has Nixon's hair samples but has envelopes stuffed with presidential hair clippings dating back to Eisenhower. "The ones from the President's first haircut are the same as from the last," says Martini. Hirsutologists also suspected Lyndon Johnson, whose hair appeared to gray noticeably after he left office. Again Martini says no. Toward the end of his tenure, says the barber, L.B.J. was finally persuaded...
...Rudi's male model, the prospect of all-over alopecia held no horror: "I've wanted to shed my hair for a long time. I have this theory that when I do, I will shed other things too-maybe my inhibitions." But Renee Holt, 22, approached her barber's appointment with anxiety. Fondly caressing her long golden tresses, she said bravely: "In a way, long hair is a crutch for a woman. Once the hair is short, one may develop other things, like the intellect. But I have been thinking what my father will...