Word: long-haired
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There was no rebellious stage in Spitzer's life, no long-hair days. But his competitiveness, especially in athletics, was directed as much at family as friends. In some well-to-do households, there is a rite of passage in which the son finally beats the father at tennis. As a teen, Spitzer found himself near that goal one day, closing in for the kill. When his father paused to catch his breath, Spitzer called out, "Mom, Dad is stalling!" The family still talks about the time Bernard cruelly whipped his son in Monopoly...
Critics of the university's admission process insist they also favor diversity. That usually sounds strained coming from affirmative-action foes. But Cohen points to his own lengthy progressive resume. He once headed the A.C.L.U.'s Ann Arbor chapter and was known during the Vietnam War era as "the long-hair guy" for his work lobbying public schools to let students with shoulder-length hair attend class. He has long given money to the A.C.L.U. and the N.A.A.C.P., and still does, he says. But Cohen says he parted ways with the civil rights mainstream because he wants to see diversity...
...second example concerns America using the Dutch to send a signal--this time to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Holland was a founding member of NATO and despite a reputation for laxity--a long-hair and unionized army--it has always been a solid citizen of the alliance. But the Dutch never took much interest in the politics of the Cold War, hoping that the missiles, if they ever flew, would pass over European soil...
...factory. At the time there were five other barber-pole makers in the country: two in Chicago, one in St. Louis, one in Los Angeles and a small one in Winston-Salem, N.C. Marvy and circumstances gradually put them out of business. A man who could have foreseen the long-hair rebellion of the mid-'60s might not have put his money into barber poles then. But by 1967 Marvy's factory, working two shifts a day of twelve to 15 men each, had turned out its 50,000th pole. That one is an elegant rig with gold...
...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...