Word: haircuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That "white sidewall" haircut episode was the stupidest piece of bureaucratic nonsense I ever heard of. The Sepoy mutiny in India (1857-59) started because some silly ass in the British army ordered the Mohammedan native troops (who could not eat pigs) to bite off the end of a cartridge which had been waterproofed with pig fat. This mutiny cost the lives of thousands of troops on both sides. I'm not suggesting that we are starting a second Sepoy mutiny, but I'd like to point out that a lot of trained technicians are not re-enlisting...
...good boy," wrote a mother to her son, "and get a haircut." It was too late. Airman Third Class Donald Wheeler, 20, stationed near Tokyo, did not "want to walk down the street looking like a shaved jackass," so he was court-martialed...
...bevies of shy, eye-batting Japanese girls. Yet Airman Wheeler, a rebellious sort who did not like his job anyway, disregarded the orders of his superior, Lieut. William Shortt, to get his hair "clipped close from ear to crown, with only a fringe on top of the head"-a haircut variously known as a white sidewall, an Apache, a chrome-dome...
Friendly Sock. Lieut. Shortt pleaded, even offered to pay for the haircut (25?). At length Wheeler consented, went off to Tokyo, returned-unshorn. He explained gravely to Shortt that he had only visited a hospital ("I am thinking of being circumcised-as a health measure"). He had also stopped off at a brothel...
...weapon we use is our youthfulness." As the most talked-about youngster in modern Japan, 24-year-old Shintaro Ishihara has every right to act as spokesman for his generation. Not yet a year out of college, he is already known as a composer, painter, a movie star whose haircut and clothes are ardently aped by teen-agers from Tokyo to Nagasaki, and the most sensationally successful author in the nation, with four bestselling novels to his credit. Beyond all this, Ishihara is the idol and godhead of a flamboyant and far-flung cult whose youthful excesses have caused Japan...