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...made me fill out all kinds of forms, including a W-4, which I did with an innocent, stupid honesty. He also laid down the law from the outset: You'll need a tie, and no dungarees. You should shave, and we don't let the stock boys wear tennis shoes." I hate people who call sneakers "tennis shoes," but I was a slave to capital, so I kept nodding and smiling...

Author: By William F. Hammond, | Title: Folding Cardboard in the Back | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...close attention to schedules and the whereabouts of each team member, as well as catering to the needs of individual swimmers. This can mean making certain a particularly sleepy swimmers responds to the wake up call, or locating a special razor for that lone team member who will shave down before the Princeton contest...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Jacques Hugon: Swim Manager Carves Niche | 3/4/1981 | See Source »

...scheme to attempt to fix the scores of nine Boston College basketball games during the 1978-79 season. In a first-person account in last week's SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Henry Hill says he bribed three Boston College players, including Co-Captains Ernie Cobb and Jim Sweeney, to shave points so that Hill and his friends in the Tommy Lucchese crime family could gamble successfully against the point spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Fixer | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...think it's a credit to out team that other squads shave down and wear skin suits when they swim us," Hays said, adding, "It could also be that our beautiful facilities make everyone swim much faster than expected...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Men Swimmers Rip Cornell; Women Fall to Yale | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

...years ago, prisoners at Maze began what is now known as the "dirty protest." They refused to wash, shave or wear clothes, wrapped themselves only in their prison blankets and smeared the walls of their cells with excrement. Since then the protest has grown to include 468 men at Maze and 26 women at Armagh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: The Hunger Strike in H-Block | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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