Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yankees watched the heroes on the field. Steinbrenner had been for-bidden by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to run his own club for two years after a conviction for giving illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon. During spring training, Steinbrenner had for-bidden his players to grow their hair too long or bushy so that they could learn to appreciate the tradition of playing in pinstripes--some wise guy commented that he'd like to see Steinbrenner in horizontal pinstripes. Steinbrenner's most recent indiscretion was in trying to foist an illegal contract on a pitcher he wanted named Andy Messersmith...
...players are faster, stronger and bushier than ever-New York is a notable exception now that George Steinbrenner has decreed short hair in order to instill "Yankee pride" in his players-but they still fit into the diamond in such a way as to generate the same slow magnetism of yore. Football fans pay up to $18 a seat for thrills, chills, shocks and jolts. Baseball fans welcome thrills, too; last year's rousing World Series remains a vivid memory. But for their money they just ask for flavor. It won't be easy for the sport...
Thirteen years ago, four young boys from Liverpool disembarked from a BOAC jet in New York. Their hair was long and unkempt; they took the Ed Sullivan Show by storm, and all America soon fell prey to Beatlemania. Well, the boys have grown old now, and an anxious continent waits for their return. Well, I got news. They aren't ever coming back. But guess who's coming on Sunday? No! you say. It can't be true! But it is! Bob Marley and the Wailers are coming to The Music Hall on Sunday...
...that the knack of ignoring one's fellow man is a useful trait in an urban environment, one with which Americans have a good deal of trouble. Americans are always wanting to relate to everyone. How else can we explain the incredible hostility created by the appearance of long hair styles back in the sixties? In Europe no one much cared about how people cut their hair...
...Though numerous hirsute plaintiffs have gone to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justices had steadfastly refused to get enmeshed in long-hair disputes. But last week the court finally faced the matter and trimmed some individual rights-at least for policemen. Suffolk County police on Long Island had objected to regulations that banned beards, flared sideburns and hair that went over the collar. Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan agreed with the officers that the 14th Amendment's "liberty" guarantee protected them since "an individual's personal appearance may reflect, sustain and nourish his personality." But William Rehnquist, writing...