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Today, at 47, Unruh wears well-tailored Italian suits and razor haircuts, holds his weight at a husky 190-200 Ibs., drinks moderately and counts his calories. He has also trimmed his name from Jesse to Jess. His opponents call the change only a minor victory of public relations. Says one enemy who is influential in California Democratic politics: "Hell, scratch him and there is the same old conniving Jesse Unruh. To know him is to hate him. Sure, he has to say there is a change. How else can he get elected...
...keeps his full-length portrait on the wall of the modest Tokyo home that they shared for many years. At 79, she is shrunken with age. Nonetheless, she readily recalls her life of blissful obedience to Tojo, whose keen mind and demanding ways won him the nickname "the Razor" from his subordinates...
...Hugh Francis Redmond, 50, a businessman from Yonkers, N.Y., had committed suicide three months ago in his Shanghai cell. Redmond, who was serving a life sentence on charges that he had been the "chief American spy" in China, reportedly slashed the veins in his arms and wrists with a razor blade and died from loss of blood...
Flight 486 was airborne only half an hour when Barkley entered the cockpit carrying a gun, a razor, and a can of what the crew took to be gasoline. He ordered Captain Dale C. Hupe to go directly to Washington, bypassing a scheduled stop at St. Louis. The pilot signaled ahead news of the hijacking. Then came what was perhaps the most spectacular message in aviation history: Barkley was demanding that the U.S. Supreme Court have $100 million in small bills delivered to the plane upon landing. Less than four hours later, Flight 486 touched down at Dulles International Airport...
Seeking the answer, the scientist set up an experiment in which he eagerly served as a guinea pig. After each daily shave with an electric razor, he meticulously collected and weighed the amount of hair that had been removed. He also devised a zero-to-five scale for rating each day's activities-including mental and physical exertion, degree of nervousness, amount of sleep and occurrence of intercourse...