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January 27,
’Rockabillies’ behind latest California fad
Crewcuts making California comeback
- ’ - United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The times
they are a-changin’ all right,
changing back again.
' -1 The cloud of hair that was
-once the very embodiment of
adolescent identity, the crown
ing symbol of youthful defiance
of the old guard, has long gone
the way of tie-dyed shirts and
Viet Cong flags.
Now, some Southern Califor
nia teen-age boys are carrying
the trend to shorter hair to a new
length.
1 he crewcut.
' ; From the skull contoured
Army recruit look to the meticu
lously levelled flat-top, crew cuts
.are showing up again in local
high schools for the first time
; since the Kingston Trio split up.
• ■V Not the raspberry and char-
treuse-dyed Mohawks that
erupt from the heads of punk
rockers, but real crew cuts, the
kind that made groups of nor
mal teen-age boys in 1955 look
like a squad of Marines.
They are still few in number
— administrators guess about 2
or 3 percent at some high
schools — but observers say the
number of bristly heads is grow
ing. And teen-age fads that be
gin in Southern California often
spread nationwide.
“Close to 5 percent of the boys
at our school have them,” said
John O’Brien, activities director
at Torrance High school. “They
started showing up back in Sep
tember and it’s spreading.”
“I was just about the first at
my school and I got all kinds of
ribbing about it,” said Michael
Mathias, 17, a senior at Notre
Dame High School, who had his
blond hair cut in a flat-top style a
year ago.
Mathias said that about 15 or
20 of the 800 students at the
high school now wear the short
hair cut.
“It’s a real clean cut look, easy
to care for and more stylish.”
Mathias and many others who
have adopted the look share a
fascination with the 1950s.
He wears ‘50s teenage styles
and listens to ‘50s teenage music
— Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran,
and of course, Elvis.
“The number is increasing —
it’s definitely a trend,” said
Cheryl Barker, who cuts hair at
Rubens’ Hair Design in the
Toluca Lake district of Los
Angeles.
“I went five years without
doing any crew cuts at all, and
I’ve done several recently, most
ly on guys about 16 and 17. It’s
your basic military haircut they
want.”
“We’re getting more and
more inquiries,” said the shop’s
owner, Ruben Plasencia. “Our
customers seem to be working
up their nerve.”
At Miraleste High School,
boys with crew cuts are probably
in the group called ’rockabillies,’
said John Letcher, director of
student activities.
“It’s a whole movement that
goes backito the ‘50s of kids who
are into ‘50s music. They wear
T-shirts with the sleeves rolled
up to the shoulder, high water
Levis, that kind of thing.
“The girls wear long skirts
almost down to the ankle and
bobby socks and loafers. They
cut their hair short and pile it up
on their head. Remember the
old beehive hairdo? They try to
copy that.
“Rockabilly is kind of a reac
tion to the preppy look that
dominates the campus. The
school’s about 70 percent pre
ppy so the rebels identify with
kids in the ‘50s and dress like
them.”
“The rockabilly scene is really
popular,” said Kathy Botica,
who wears ankle length skirts
and bobby socks to school. She
described her hair style as “stick
ing up on the sides and down on
my face and kind of penny on
top, kind of like a ducktail in the
‘50s.”
“We had a rockabilly day in
September,” said O’Brien of
Torrance High. “The boys came
in blue jeans, white T-shirts,
white socks and penny loafers.
“The girls wore those big skirts.
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WASHINGTON — Austra
lian researchers report that a
small group of healthy hospital
workers developed significantly
lower blood pressure when they
gave up meat and switched to a
vegetarian diet for six weeks.
Just what it was in their milk,
eggs and plant diet that was re
sponsible for the drop in blood
pressure during the study is not
known, but the scientists said it
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The scientists who conducted
the vegetarian study are from
the University of Western Au
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the National Health and Medic
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medical journal.
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several population studies sug
gesting that vegetarian diets had
a blood pressure lowering
effect.
The 59 test subjects between
the ages of 25 and 63 were
selected from 93 volunteers on
the staff of the HToyal Perth Hos
pital. One group was randomly
put on an omnivorous diet for
14 weeks while two other groups
were put on an omnivorous diet
for the first two weeks and then
on a vegetarian diet for one til
two six-week experimental
periods.
There was no change in the
blood pressure of those who re
mained on the meat diet, but the
scientists said there were signifi
cant drops in blood pressure in
the other two groups when they
were on a vegetarian diet.
The upper or systolic press
ure dropped an average of 5mm
to 6nmi and the diastolic, or low-
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