Word: barbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surrogate Cops. The Harvard football team lined up autos along the practice field to light an extra few hours of jousting for the weekend's game against Brown. Students at New York's Fordham University studied by car lights; a Springfield, Vt., barber finished cutting a customer's hair when an obliging motorist focused his car on the barbershop's front window; in New York's Pennsylvania Station, homeless commuters sacked out in the glow of two Volkswagens' headlights...
...After all those parties, Yves wanted to visit the Museum of Modern Art. "I want to see Mondrian, the father of my dresses," he sighed to Yvonne de Peyerimhoff, the director of his Paris salon. "A sentimental trip." Some people thought he might also make a trip to the barber before returning to France. "Oh, it's short now," Yves explained, smoothing his beatled locks. "Usually I wear it longer, but one day I was depressed, so I cut my hair...
...staid old teen-age crew cut is receding. A Chicago barber reports that 80% of his young customers now ask for the long cut, compared with 10% five years ago. Says John A. Maloney, a Cambridge, Mass., barber who specializes in shearing Harvard students: "They come in and want it trimmed as long as possible. I use scissors and a comb. There's no place to use a clipper. There's no scalp to get close...
ISAAC STERN (Columbia). The violin concertos of Samuel Barber and Paul Hindemith test Stern's talents in contrasting ways. For Barber, the violin must gently caress the lush phrases and clearly sing the profusion of simple melodies. With Hindemith, the instrument becomes one of dark conflict. Stern is superbly in control of both, as is Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic...
Twenty-five states still allow the fee system in their traffic courts-meaning that the "judge," who might be a grocer, a barber, or even the local beauty-shop operator, is paid from the proceeds of fines. Some have been known to make $20,000 a year dispensing justice. The laws themselves are often unfair-or unenforceable. Speed limits that are set too low allow an officer to pick and choose when he should arrest someone. One of the greatest bluffs in U.S. traffic law is the New York City parking ordinance. Stern-looking green tickets, carrying a $15 fine...