Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adults who yearn to clip the nation's longhairs keep running into a formidable obstacle: the U.S. Constitution. Take the school officials in Williams Bay, Wis., who insist that boys with shoulder-length locks distract other students from their studies. Last year the officials ordered two hairy boys, Thomas Breen, 17, and James Anton, 19, to get , haircuts or get expelled. Spurning both choices, the shaggy ones asked a federal district court to declare the order unconstitutional. When the court obliged, the would-be clippers continued their fight right up to the Supreme Court...
...anyhow. I see a lot of movies. And then, sometimes, I get lost in the fog. And I go to the bathroom a lot. And I walk around the Common late at night looking for dead dogs, sometimes simultaneously pulling snot out of my nose with a paper clip...
...home runs; two days later the musclemen in both leagues hit a record 46 homers. And along with the rain of homers there has been a positive cloudburst of singles, doubles and triples. In the first six weeks of the season, A.L. batters hit at a .253 clip, a 13-point increase over the same period last year. Says St. Louis Manager Red Schoendienst: "I can't decide if the ball is more alive or people are getting stronger. All I know is that the baseball flies...
...justice, in other words, can be counted on to be arbitrary, brutal and repressive, and Robert Sherill does not have to play with hypothetical cases to prove it. His cleverly titled new book. Military Justice is to Justice as Military Music is to Music, relates at a quick, journalistic clip enough examples of judicial miscarriage to confirm anyone's worst fears. The Washington editor of The Nation. Sherill is more thought-provoking than thoughtful in this fast-reading study of the Armed Forces' system of justice. But if the volume turns up few surprises, it conveys much that is worth...
...large roadside billboards just inside the county lines north and south of town guard the approach to Ludowici. Placed there by Governor Lester Maddox two weeks ago, they warn approaching motorists of "speed traps" and "clip joints" in large black letters on a white background. State Trooper Thomas Randall sits in his blue Chevrolet guarding the southernmost sign against Ludowici's irate citizens. Occasionally Randall puts aside his Playboy and climbs out to chat with a tourist, such as H.E. Phillips from Beaufort, S.C. "I've heard about this place in the state of Washington," says Phillips, snapping...