Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Testing In the barbershop of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, a 13-year-old Negro boy, Eugene Young, hopped into a chair, opened his fist to display two $1 bills, and ordered a haircut. Without hesitating, Barber Lloyd Soper covered the lad with a white apron, took out his clippers and went to work...
...Open Mind." The selection of Adams to referee this Army-Air Force dispute testifies to his record of cold objectivity and ruthless fairness. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff General William F. McKee recently leaned across a Pentagon barbershop chair to tell Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that Adams was the best man in either service he could possibly have found to run STRIKE. And Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay calls Adams "the most objective officer I have ever run across in the Army. He has an open mind...
...floor space, houses a 350-seat theater, staff offices, closed-circuit TV system and studio, barbershop, beauty shop, radio studio, tailor shop, newspaper office, bank, post office, 17-bed hospital, twelve-man jail, four-lane bowling alley...
...Pocket. North Carolina Mutual had an uncertain beginning 65 years ago in the backroom of a Durham barbershop. Barber John Merrick, one of seven founders, got some useful advice from Tobacco Magnate Washington Duke (his family founded the American Tobacco Co.), who explained business practices while being shaved. But Duke's advice was of little help when the struggling company faced its first policyholder death: to cover the $10 payment due, the firm had only 290 cash on hand. Merrick and another backer dipped into their pockets for the difference, then shrewdly waved the widow's receipt around...
Memory Drums. The first distress message was tapped out at 11:30 p.m. and gave the Lakonia's position as 180 miles northwest of Madeira. Already, thick, billowing smoke was seeping from under the door of the barbershop, where the fire apparently had started. And by now, the flames had burned their way through the floor. So thick was the smoke that Passenger George Chapman was forced to grab a gas mask as he tried to force his way below to his sleeping three-year-old son Geoffrey. "I thought if I had to die, I wanted...