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...appear at the theater only because someone had reached an aunt of his in Memphis, who thereupon told Faulkner that she was going to the premiere and expected him to escort her. With the negligent indifference of an aristocrat, he did not bother to wear a tie or shave off a three-day stubble...
James Forstner was a well-regarded juvenile probation officer in San Francisco. He was, that is, until last fall when he began sporting a beard. Shave it off, he was ordered. Forstner's charges would get a bad "impression of beatnikism," said the boss. When he refused, Forstner was fired. When the civil service commission rejected his appeal, he went to state superior court. "Maybe every beatnik wears a beard," argued his hairsplitting lawyer, "but not every person who wears a beard is a beatnik...
...whole, never forgetting for a moment that each of our Latin American neighbors is quite different from the other. In relation to Cuba, I am for the liberation of Cuba without firing a shot. I feel that it is wholly possible we soon will be able to shave Castro's beard by means of laser rays...
...bathroom-that place of splash and gurgle, electric razor buzz and after-shave fragrance, that small citadel of privacy where one goes to doctor oneself, make faces in the mirror, or commit suicide-is undergoing a renaissance. Even the modest homeowner wants more of them; small houses, which moved up from a single bath to a bath and a half about ten years ago, are now being built with two and 2½ bathrooms, and bigger ones at that. And the rich are asking for and getting bathrooms with pool-type tubs, wall-to-wall carpeting, mirrored ceilings, arched canopies...
...like the way the image fit. Or maybe it was the clothes. First, he chucked the cigars, then he cut out drinking and went on a diet. Now he's down to a trim 39-in. waist and a sylphlike 220 lbs., and he aims to shave off 20 lbs. more. Hooted a 190-lb. Republican state legislator: "His loss of weight only parallels his loss of stature in the public...