Word: barbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keep America employed--get a haircut. The Cambridge barber business that once thrived on crew cuts and flattops is now starving on long hair...
...Local barber shops have lost from 20 to 60 per cent of their business in the past several years, with the real plunge coming since last fall. The University Barber Shop on Mass. Ave., which used to employ nine barbers, now has a staff of six, only three of whom are full-time...
...padded freight elevator; then out into the enormous main Factory loft, with its 30-ft.-high steel-trussed ceiling, 54-ft.-long bar, sea of dining tables and minuscule dance floor. Out back is another barroom, with four pool tables (the one covered in red felt is for ladies), barber chairs and church pews for the onlookers and oldtime coin machines to play while waiting. The men's-room graffiti are considered so choice that occasionally the waiters cordon the room off, let the girls dash in for a quick peek...
...going to let anyone put anything else in this. All you want to do is add words, and I'm trying to cut words." The speech thereupon went off to the mimeograph machines and Johnson to White House Barber Steve Martini for a trim. Though many televiewers thought that Martini might have given the President a marcel as well, the difference in his appearance was because Johnson has been letting his hair grow longer, bringing out the silver in it, and has stopped using the hair oil that wags long referred to as "b'ar grease...
Marine Band, its scarlet tunics reflected in the Waterford chandeliers pendent from the 20-foot ceiling, played Bach's Arioso and Barber's Adagio for Strings, as Yuki, the President's favorite mongrel, trotted around outside in new red bootees and a matching jacket inscribed "CONGRATULATIONS...