Word: beards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with an old passion, painting. Although he received a Best Actor nomination for his role in On Golden Pond, he has no plans to suit up for the Academy Awards in March. In fact, his only immediate chore is to rid himself of his facial hair. "I grew the beard out of defiance," he says. "I made a pact with myself that only when I am well will I shave it off, which I am almost ready...
...Bushnell, his former boss at Atari. They suggested that he call Don Valentine, an investor who frequently puts money into new firms. When Valentine came around to inspect the new computer, he found Jobs wearing cutoff jeans and sandals while sporting shoulder-length hair and a Ho Chi Minh beard. Valentine later asked McKenna: "Why did you send me this renegade from the human race...
Dozier was then taken to the U.S. military hospital at Vicenza, where he was declared in good health. With a six-week growth of beard and shaggy, tousled hair, the normally crew-cut general made several special requests to hospital personnel. The first: a haircut. The second: a cheeseburger, French fries and a Coke. He got both wishes, but not before he was tearfully reunited with his wife and daughter, who had by then flown in to meet him. Declared Judith Dozier: "We want to say thanks to all the people in the world for their love and their prayers...
Tall and thin, with a scruffy reddish beard and glasses, Hayes, 29, "and getting older by the minute," did not come to the help of the homeless because he was appointed to the job. He simply took on the responsibility. The Georgetown University graduate first noticed the homeless when he began studying law at New York University, just a bottle's throw from the Bowery. "I shared the common myth about them," he recalls. "I assumed that they lived on the street by choice...
...diseased poultry. "If I'd known how much this appeal was going to cost," Joseph Schechter later complained of his $60,000 legal fees, "I probably would have gone to jail." But it was this tawdry case that inspired Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, stroking his white beard as he read the verdict to a packed courtroom, to strike down the entire NRA as unconstitutional...