Word: grows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...progression toward long hair. Says David Mauldin, the 15-year-old son of Cartoonist Bill Mauldin: "My father thinks it makes me look like a faggot." In their own defense, students point out that long hair has been a sign of virility ever since Samson, claim that they often grow mop tops because their girl friends want them...
...odds are that the hair will continue to grow for at least a year. In London, where the trend has had a few years' start, there is hardly a hair's difference between the sexes. The principal of a technical school in Peterborough recently reprimanded a girl for using the men's lavatory-only to discover that...
Breakout After Stress. Like viruses, PPLO can invade living cells and destroy them from within. Like bacteria, they can grow in a chemical broth independently of living cells. Though PPLO differ from bacteria in having ill-defined shapes (see diagram), some are believed to be variant forms of bacteria. And like many bacteria, some PPLO are natural inhabitants of the human respiratory, intestinal and genital tracts, where they cause no disease until they are activated when the individual has been subjected to unusual stress...
...gnomes in their resemblance to the deformed dwarf, Oskar Matzerath, of German Novelist Günter Grass's bestseller, The Tin Drum. As Antes seeks to show life from a different perspective, so Grass's Oskar, a moral hunchback who reaches his third year and refuses to grow any more, sees the world from chair level. There are striking parallels, too, between writer and painter. Both were born in the decade that spawned Nazism, both learned their ABCs in Hitler schools, both burst on the cultural scene in 1959 to become symbols of Germany's postwar conscience...
Small Cars Bigger. Changed most are the small cars, which continue to grow bigger. The new compacts are longer than many standard-sized cars were a decade ago. Detroit has junked the economy image because it failed in model year '65. Despite record sales of 8,800,000 cars, there were drop-offs in Ford's Falcon and Fairlane, G.M.'s Chevy II, Chrysler's Valiant and American Motors' Rambler...