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CINCINNATI -- The first man to walk on the moon used to come into Marx's Barber Shop in Lebanon about every month for a trim. That stopped when Neil Armstrong learned that owner Marx Sizemore picked up some of the former astronaut's hair from the floor of his shop and sold it for $3,000 to a Connecticut collector. "I didn't deny it or anything," said Sizemore, who recently bought the shop. "I told him I did it." A letter from Armstrong's lawyer threatens legal action if Sizemore does not return the hair or contribute $3,000 to a charity of Armstrong's...

KERRY FLIES D.C. HAIRDRESSER TO OREGON FOR TOUCH-UP Mon Aug 16 2004 22:37:16 ET SUPERCUTS: Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry flew his Washington, DC hairdresser to Portland, OR last week for a touch-up. CRISTOPHE stylist Isabelle Goetz, who handles Kerry's hair issues, made the trek to the West Coast, the NY DAILY NEWS will report on Tuesday. Last spring, DRUDGE detailed how Kerry flew Goetz to Pittsburgh for a trim...

DIYALA PROVINCE -- North Carolina National Guard Soldiers have had almost five months to get used to life in Iraq. One adjustment they have had to make is figuring out how to get a decent haircut. They did not have to look far. At a tiny barber shop set up outside Camp Cobra, soldiers with the 30th Heavy Separate Brigade keep their hair cut within military regulations with the help of a Mazin Ali. At a tiny barber shop set up outside Camp Cobra, soldiers with the 30th Heavy Separate Brigade keep their hair cut within military regulations with the...

They were just trying to save his hair. But what started as a desire to preserve Koran Akindele Jenkin's dreadlocks, grown during his 13-year life, ended in tragedy and changed the Berkeley boy's world forever. Koran had picked up head lice in his thick, black shoulder-length dreads during a backyard campout with a group of friends. The eighth grader had never in his life had a haircut. He loved his hair. His mother loved his hair. Koran, a member of a hip-hop group, needed the hair to complete his look. But as the critters hopped around in Koran's locks, mother...

Students at hundreds of high schools are planning a walkout on Wednesday to protest the Bush Administration's plans for war in Iraq.The 'student strike' is being coordinated by the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, an organization of 15 student groups that came together after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.The coalition, which calls the action 'Books not Bombs,' has linked student protests against war in Iraq with a call for better financed schools.'Were getting about 10 schools a day contacting us to participate, and it's probably about 35-40 percent high schools, said Andy Burns, an organizer who is...

(Manning) Jan. 30, 2003 - There are some things you can count on in the town of Manning as sure as the sun rises, like a great cup of joe at George's Coffee House, bells tolling the hour at the First Baptist Church and the sound of voices reflecting on tales of old. Ninety-seven year-old Ollie Stukes' is a legend in town. He's been cutting hair, "Since nineteen-hundred and twenty-five." Parents bring their kids to Ollie for their first haircuts, "Because I had cut four generations, five generations in that family, see." He's received a number of awards. Strom Thurmond...

Senator John Kerry confirmed late Monday that he's been visiting Washington's famed Cristophe Salon for haircuts, where he has been paying $75 a visit -- half of what Senator Hillary Clinton has been charged for a similar shampoo, cut and blow-dry! This report revealed on Monday how Kerry, a self-described "Man of The People", has been quietly visiting Cristophe's, getting cleaned and coifed by Isabel Goetz, Hillary Clinton's hairstylist. A well-placed source claimed Kerry had been charged Isabel's going rate of $150 for the trim; the WASINGTONIAN also reported that Ms. Goetz charges $150 a visit at Cristophe Salon. "Isabel...