Word: butches
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...long hair has outgrown its parameters, traditionally described by the rebelliousness of youth and the self-consciousness of show business. It has become grey, middleaged, ubiquitous and eminently respectable, a coast-to-coast phenomenon that has infiltrated even the U.S. Army, that last bastion of the butch. Last March at Fort Ord, Calif., by command of the commanding officer, the compulsory 30-second scalp job for all recruits was succeeded by a permissive repertory of six hair styles...
Clarke Kawakami, the captain and number two man, overcame inconsistency in the early going to have a good season. "Butch came on quite well toward the end, and played a great match against Yale," Wynn said of Kawakami. He played first doubles, with Eric Wise, the third singles man, who was probably the squad's most consistent player. Wise, Harvard's only loser at Brown, reversed that contest by winning the only match at Princeton. He had a 6-2 record...
...have been attackmen Tom Quaranto and Peter Pierce, the two top scorers, and goalie Butch Hilliard, a second-team all-Ivy choice last year...
Other Bears to watch are backstroking sophomore Vance Salter, butterflyer Har-old Mugford and Brown breaststroke record-holder Butch Wilder...
...Butch's casualness ends at the gym door. A fundamentalist who scoffs at patterned offenses ("I'd rather just play basketball") and fancy zone defenses ("In a man-to-man defense, you know exactly who makes a mistake"), he is, according to one Tiger player, "the best coach in basketball-from Monday through Friday." But when game time rolls around, he turns into a Tiger-screaming at his players, snarling at referees. A loss sends him into a paroxysm of frustration; even a victory leaves him wan and wet with perspiration. Not until the season is over...