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Ceilings have also been established for services. Barbershops prominently post their rates (shave and haircut: 5?) under signs, in English and native languages, warning customers not to pay more. Seamstress shops qualify their prices (trousers or dresses: 30?) with notices that "no additional charge will be made for materials." Under such rules, business is brisk. The trade shop at Tinian's Churo Camp (pop. 11,142) grosses close...
...During this memorable period so many things have happened that it will take the rest of our natural lives to even recall them. We've learned a lot and we've unlearned a lot. Many of us have gotten a little older, in fact, name of us even shave now. We'll never forget these months spent here at Harvard. But isn't that the plaint of all when the end of any period of memorable happenings comes to a close...
...Shave for Shopkeepers...
...room in the Hotel Scribe is huge, highceilinged, with Army bed rolls stacked in one corner and piles of Army rations in another. We have hot water only once or twice a week for an hour, so everybody tries to bathe and shave at the same time...
...what with adroit use of the flashback technique--an extremely rare thing these days--the movie scrambles to its feet just as the referee counts ten. It's a close shave, and the five o'clock shadow's still there...