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...movement has not produced much humor. But the April issue of Off Our Backs offered readers a Playboy-type centerfold showing a bearded Mr. April fetchingly posed nude on a shaggy fur rug. In Berkeley, when an organization called Women for the Free Future burned a diploma to symbolize their claim that the university failed to teach women anything relevant to their situation in society, they also incinerated a Barbie doll, a book by Norman Mailer (regarded as an arch-male chauvinist by the movement), birth-control pills, the Bible, and Good Housekeeping's list of the Ten Most Admired...
...years ago, fear of being humiliated by a slightly askew toupee was enough to keep all but the boldest of America's estimated 17-20 million balding males in their natural state. Now, in a youth-oriented age of flowing locks, the artificial hair industry has finally developed "rugs" that not only look real but will stay in place in wind, water or bed. Consequently, more than 2.5 million men now wear toupees, and where hair does not flourish, rug makers...
...dozen individual loops or sutures of Teflon-coated wire. "Medi-Hair" weaves the sutures in and out in a basting pattern; its $1,000 job is supposedly permanent. In one ad, a "Medi-Hair" wearer is shown hanging upside down with a 12-lb. weight attached to his rug...
When he came home from a tournament last year, Billy Casper found his eight-year-old son tapping balls across the living-room rug with a mallet-head putter he had found lying around the house. Casper tried a few strokes, liked the feel of the club and decided to try it out in the Bob Hope Desert Classic. He won, and the putter has been in his bag ever since. Last week it won him the coveted Masters championship. His longest putts popped in as if the undulating greens were as level as his living-room rug...
...hall of students observe the operation. The quiet bloody hands makes it difficult to stare at this intense description. Sargent has an equally striking work of four girls arranged on a wide space of a dark room. The smallest sits, paused in playing with her doll an a grey rug. Painted with shimmering intensity of dark and light, they stand in black stockings and white dresses. Sargent dissolves the trivia from the subject by making it look like a monumental stage...