Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the hell is this?!," I shouted as I opened the promo kit only to find a plastic army helmet with the words "War is Coming" neatly stenciled across the front. The helmet and other equally ridiculous gimmicks were dreamed up by some under assistant West Coast promo man to announce War's first "solo" album...
...nape and perhaps a mustache and beard as well. Infection following surgery remains a problem, says Ludmila Davis, director of Stanford University Hospital's operating rooms, and hair is a natural breeding ground for bacteria. So Mrs. Davis and colleagues have designed a "Lawrence of Arabia helmet" to cover not only the Samson hair but also the Burnside whiskers and Mosaic beards of young, mod surgeons...
...recent years, that birth rate has been phenomenally high. In ever-increasing numbers, football fans lose themselves for hours every weekend in trancelike wonder before their home sets. The true TV football freak will watch anything that wears a helmet and moves-and he has ample opportunity...
...blocking which offensive line coach George Karras taught this year: "As the opponent comes toward you, you walt in a set position. The key to this is patience. At the next stage, when he's just about on you, you deliver an upward thrust with your head and your helmet as the primary weapons. You are taught to aim for his chin." Samuel Z. Goldhaber
OUTFITTED in all that panoply of royal tradition, Queen Elizabeth's elite regiments have one natural enemy: the conservationist. On the head of every member of the Foot Guards, for example, rises half a Canadian bearskin; from the helmet of the Household Cavalryman sprouts a plume of yak hairs. Whenever the army's 88 military bands wheel into action, the soldiers who carry the big bass drums drape themselves in the skins of leopards and tigers...