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...Harvard by opening a women's leg shaving service in their Weld Hall suite. The Weld Penthouse Shaving Society was founded on the premise that some female students were "too lazy" to take care of the job themselves, and it was apparently well-received by amused Weld women. One shaver said that he and his associates had provided their non-profit service to at least 20 customers...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

Even some foreign companies are suffering from the walkout. Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms Ltd. of Cambridge, Ont., is one of the world's largest poultry firms. Every 24 hours it ships as many as 50,000 day-old chicks to clients around the globe, some of them in the U.S. Newborn chicks can live for no more than three days without feeding, which is prohibitively expensive during transport. Thus air freight is essential for Shaver's business. Says a company official: "For the moment we are managing, but if U.S. flights halt, that could start backing up Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economic Perils of Chaos Aloft | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...interesting songs but would never fuse his raw performing talents. Then six years ago, Willie bucked the system by leaving Nashville for Austin, Texas, where he took charge of a movement that made outlaw a term of defiant pride. Along with such congenial spirits as Waylon Jennings, Billy Joe Shaver and Jerry Jeff Walker, he fashioned a spare, linear style with a heavy rock beat that reached an audience far broader than the country faithful, mainly by appealing to long-haired rock fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Platinum Outlaw | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

There are the ones about a rapist who preyed on the elderly, the hood who stuffed a rival into a laundry dryer, a sort of Jack the Shaver who depilated his victims with a razor, and the tale about the monsignor who died in a brothel: the police dressed him and propped him in his car, which they parked at a shopping center. It was piously announced that the prelate had suffered a heart attack while reaching for his glove compartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unstrung Harps | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...drill, Shavers laid outstretched on a table and Lucca pounded Shaver's midsection with the ball. While slamming Shavers with increased effort, Lucca shouted, "Can he hurt...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Shavers Plans to Trim Ali | 9/29/1977 | See Source »

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