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...unless the television was on and sometimes sneaked out of bed to catch a late movie. His favorite shows: such cops-and-robbers series as Kojak, Baretta and Starsky and Hutch. According to Mrs. Zamora, Ronald is such a Kojak fan, "he even asked his father to shave his head because he wanted my husband to look like...
...Luther King Jr. was killed by James Earl Ray and James Earl Ray alone, not in concert with anyone else." Ray's attorney at the time, the flamboyant Percy Foreman, said he had grilled Ray for some 50 hours, checked all his expenses "down to 75? for a shave and a haircut," and reluctantly concluded that Ray had had no help killing King...
...result has been a rash of new habits. Men have been surprised to learn that a shave normally consumes 2% gal. of water; they are no longer filling wash basins just to cut whiskers. Julie Graham, a San Rafael housewife with three children, uses a pail to catch the cool water her husband runs until he gets hot water for shaving. She carries it in a bucket to the kitchen to wash dishes. Then she collects the dishwater in another pail, as well as water from the clothes washer, and uses it to flush toilets. "I've spent...
...price of the tin-plated steel used to make most beer, vegetable and fruit cans by an average of 4.8%, and the White House publicly bestowed its blessing on the increase as a relatively moderate one. More important, TIME has learned that the Carter Administration got U.S. Steel to shave down the increase as a result of private talks that constituted a model of how the Administration's policy of "prenotification" of wage and price boosts is supposed to work...
Daterman knows the pheromone's power from personal experience: "You can take a shower, shave, wash your clothes, and the moths will still find you." Nonetheless, Daterman is willing to suffer the indignity of the moths' affections for the sake of insect control. After all, he says, "it's only embarrassing in the presence of another scientist who knows what the moth has on his mind...