Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than John Kennedy. As the surprising G.O.P. sentiment bubbled up, virtually without local leadership, the party began attracting a new breed of politician- furrow-browed, button-down, college-trained young amateurs who, one by one, took over control of the state parties from apathetic and aging professionals. The new wave is now in command of Alabama, Mississippi, and South and North Carolina. The four rebel state chairmen...
...membership by taking in white-collar teachers, who otherwise might stick with the "professional" N.E.A. A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President James B. Carey was shouted down by the delegates in Denver before he could reach a key retort in his speech to the convention: "Teachers are welcoming unionism as a wave of the future. The N.E.A. should, too, or it will find that it has been left behind as history marches past...
...diet of progressive jazz and the recorded works of Frankie and other customers. It has a red and black floor, Indian brass hanging lamps, paneled partitions and-in Sebring's private cell-velvet drapes. A visit begins with a mandatory shampoo (Sebring, like most of the "new wave" of barbers, prefers to work on damp hair...
...beauty shops for men. Biggest is Bayard's Hair Studio, where it is not an uncommon sight to see a husky customer sitting with a cigar in his mouth and a hairnet on his head, as an operator uses a hand dryer to finish up his permanent wave. Owner Tom Bayard (who wears one of the toupees he specializes in-wavy black with a few grey strands) got the idea for a men-only beauty parlor when he was operating a ladies-only establishment before World War II. Men came in and asked if he would cut their hair...
...final set, the angry Aussie star built up a 4-1 lead, then 5-2. But Billie Jean refused to quit, fought back to lead 6-5. At match point, Billie Jean slashed a backhand volley into the corner that the bewildered Margaret could only wave at as it whizzed...