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...Mississippi sharecropper, has long been a leading example of black capitalism at its bootstrap best. His Chicago-based firm held about 60% of the black hair-care market. His Ultra Sheen No-Base hair relaxer was the first product to contain a protective cream that shielded the scalp against powerful acids. Advised that patenting the new product could take two years, Johnson decided to put it directly on the shelf in 1965, without that legal protection...
...reelection, the authors would tell us, because of his deep psychological need to "measure up and win." The man from Georgia picked up his 49 per cent by carefully managing to control his emotions and quell the steamy contradictions which threaten at any moment to split his newly-parted scalp. Carter got to the White House through his belief in God and, a la Norman Vincent Peale, by the power of positive thinking...
...would seem easy to pin down the preposterous utterances, but no; McCarthy is as hard to catch as a mist--a mist that carries lethal contagion." On Vice President Richard Nixon: "In politics this quiet young man is a killer....He is out for the kill and the scalp at any cost." On 1968 presidential candidate George Wallace: "the hillbilly Hitler." On Rep. Gerald Ford (R.-Mich) in 1966: "not overbright...
ANALYSTS SAY Sen. Joseph Timilty, whose challenge to White has become a painful exercise in redundancy, will run second to White in the preliminary. Timilty, who presided over President Carter's now-defunct National Commission of Neighborhoods and ran Carter through Pennsylvania, is after the mayor's scalp for the third time. He compares the White administration to a loaf of stale bread, believes in tax cuts, limiting condominium conversion along the lines of the Cambridge plan and the "neighborhood movement." What the neighborhood movement is, nobody, least of all the senator's staff, can put his finger on, although...
...These operations are quite different from legitimate hair transplants, which involve taking hair "plugs" from hirsute parts of the patient's body and planting them in the hairless regions of the scalp...