Word: haircutting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steel may be up. Food may be up. Wages may be up. But, contrary to rumors, haircut prices in Harvard Square shall not be moved, according to the local tonsorial community...
Owners of the four main barber shops in the Square said yesterday that they had no intention of raising haircut prices in the forseeable future. Boston newspapers have been playing up the fact that some members of the Massachusetts Master Barbers Association had announced that they would raise haircut prices from...
...probably the most calamitous shearing since Samson's, but Beatle John Lennon, 25, was brave about it. In a quiet little operation on Lüneburger Heide, West Germany, he suffered through the unique experience of a normal haircut to prepare for his role as a British Tommy in a film called How I Won the War. When the perspiring barber had finally chopped through the thatch, Beatle aides swept up the locks and sent them off to a German teen magazine for distribution to the faithful. "It's all right," said John...
Many businesses are doing some fast footwork to avoid or soften the blow. The easiest solution is to raise prices. Thus, brewers have suggested that publicans charge a penny a pint more for beer, and the Hairdressers' Federation suggests an increase of sixpence a haircut. Hotels are also announcing or considering price hikes. The London Hilton calculates its wage bill will rise by $2,800 a week...
...take off my nonexistent hat from my conforming haircut to Alan Miller [May 27]. His parents also I salute for not allowing their son to be railroaded into the stifling world of conformity. Our society is desperate for educated people who have retained a grain of individuality after the typically narrowing experience of a public school education. I know not the length of Superintendent Smith's hair, but he apparently wears it thick and long, perpetually covering both eyes and both ears. The barber is being called for the wrong person...