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...towns bordering the Charles as far as Dedham, 34 miles from Boston harbor, are supplying trucks, and civic-minded businessmen have donated 50,000 plastic bags. Red Cross disaster units and local police teams will be patrolling the river banks with walkie-talkies and the Waltham Junior College canoeing club will be on hand for rescue missions...
...effect of war on Viet Nam's preadolescents is just as devastating. The records of Saigon's Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery are full of case histories of childhood gone awry. A 13-year-old named True was running in the fields outside Nha Trang when he stumbled upon a fountain pen. Shouting to his friends, he placed the pen in his mouth and bit into it; it turned out to be a Chinese-made plastique bomb that destroyed half his face. Similarly, a 15-year-old named An was raiding a garbage heap...
...Plastic Pants. The hottest item of the season-and not only hot but sweating-are Trim-Jeans. Variously known as Slim Shorts and Air Shorts, and priced anywhere from $6 to $14, the plastic pants are put on, inflated with the accompanying air pump, and worn for half an hour or so. Like last year's popular Sauna Belt, the shorts work by trapping body heat between vinyl and skin; the heat, it is claimed, "breaks down fatty tissue." Some doctors think, however, that the weight that melts away is actually just water that is lost through perspiration. Shorts...
Hanging Skin. Circulation cut by a quarter, the client totters to a plastic-covered lounge and gets soaked with the mysterious liquid, then is zipped into a plastic suit. There the customers lie in moist and mummy-like discomfort for 90 minutes. Then they are unzipped and measured to discover how many inches they have lost...
...weeks ago, a plastic bomb exploded near Stanford President Richard Lyman's office, causing an estimated $25,000 worth of damage. So far, local police, the university's campus cops and the FBI have not made a single arrest. To Lyman, the incidents were a relic of the past rather than a harbinger of the future. "Terrorism," he said, "tends to be the tactic of a protest movement that has no mass following." The Stanford Daily seemed to agree. Though past editorials have occasionally taken radical stands, the paper condemned the new violence: "It is chilling to realize...