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...Russification of Czechoslovakia continued last week, when Czech soldiers were ordered to shave their heads in conformity with Red army style. One soldier complained that his girl "burst into tears" when he first appeared with shaved head. Prague's army newspaper Obrana Lidu quickly advised him to give up the girl, "because she evidently cares only for your hair and not that you are a defender of our people's democratic homeland...
When a lance corporal proclaimed, "I would rather go to prison than shave my head," the Communist organ Rovnost cautioned Czech soldiers to guard against whispering campaigns "which try to stir up rumors about alleged concentration camps in the barracks...
...Greenwich, Conn. (pop. 38,000), barbers posted a new price scale: shave and a haircut, two bucks. And rising costs wiped out another price landmark. In Philadelphia, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. upped its prices by 15? a case, thus forcing retailers to charge 6? for a bottle of Coke...
...Flies in the Coffee. That night, the enemy did not come back in force. By the time another morning dawned, the whole outfit was feeling pretty good. Lieut. Lummis had shaved. Looking almost civilized, he tried to get Captain Merchant to shave, too. Merchant refused. "I'll shave when they get us out of this stinking place," he growled. But even Merchant had relaxed a little. Said he: "This morning I brushed my teeth and I've stopped drinking coffee with flies...
...Tibet's ruling lamas, by contrast, shave their heads from the day (at nine or ten) when they are confirmed as priestly "disciples of the gods...