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That kind of money is no less an incentive for the Oakland Raiders, of course-and in their techniques, talent and toughness, Coach Johnny Rauch's Raiders bear a strong resemblance to those fellows the Packers see when they shave in the morning. Like the Packers, the Raiders are essentially a running ballclub; in Halfback Pete Banaszak and Fullback Hewritt Dixon, Oakland has two long-striding, flat-footed runners who closely resemble Green Bay's Donny Anderson and Chuck Mercein. Against Houston, Dixon rambled for 144 yds., and Banaszak gained...
...transportation, import duties, U.S. distribution and profit markups. Auto dealers expect to cut prices of British cars by 5% to 10% within weeks. On the other hand, importers predicted that the cost of a bottle of Scotch will drop only a few pennies-after the Christmas holidays. Devaluation will shave the profits of some American-owned firms with large British operations. Food-packing H. J. Heinz, for one, figures on a 16?-a-share decrease in its earnings; yet altogether, predicted Heinz President R. Burt Gookin, devaluation will mean "no more than a ripple in the U.S. economy...
...young Masai have been drafted into a kind of national construction corps in which they must wear olive green fatigues, floppy jungle hats and heavy boots. If necessary, says Mkwang'ata, police are prepared to herd the Masai into mass baths, burn their ceremonial garb in public and shave off their ochered hair...
...hippie is all juvenile protest. He wears his hair extravagantly long because short hair was once the Establishment's style, and he opposes the Establishment. In a predominantly long-haired society-the African Bushman's, for example-he would doubtless shave his skull. The respectable longhair, on the other hand, is protesting nothing, and, what's more, his hair is only respectably long...
...Ypres in World War I. Everything must be brought into the outpost by helicopter to a landing zone grimly known as "Death Valley," or over the unpaved road from Cam Lo. Everything rots or mildews. The Marines at Con Thien live on C rations. Because water is scarce, they shave only every other day and can seldom wash...