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Six people have been chosen for the American team for the World Championship of Hairstyling, which is scheduled for next summer in Washington, D.C. (In all, 200,000 hairstylists will attend the event.) The teams compete in such categories as “business hair,” “nighttime social hair,” and “progressive hair” as well as in a technical hairstyling event. The hairdressers march in an Olympics-style opening ceremony, and after each event the flag of the winner’s country is raised and its national anthem played.
A Reuters News Service dispatch from the Netherlands in July quoted Rotterdam police lauding a new investigative technique. A police spokesperson said criminals sometimes leave their earprints on windows and doors, and “earprinting is going to become almost as common as fingerprinting soon.”
During June and July Lou Torok, an inmate in West Liberty, Kentucky, who’s serving time for child molesting, persuaded the governors of six states to proclaim October 7 “Love Day.”
Sergeant Ernest A. Hubble, a 29-year-old army recruiter, was arrested and charged with burglary in June in La Junta, Colorado. Hubble was allegedly failing to meet his monthly quota and broke into the Navy recruiting station next door to steal files of its prospective applicants.
Joe Buddy Caine, 35, died in Anniston, Alabama, in September as a result of rattlesnake bites. He was bitten while tossing the snake around in a game of catch with his friend Junior Bright, who was hospitalized with bites.
