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...Hugheses have something that many other Americans would envy: an almost debt-free life. From the plastic-slipcovered furniture to the color television console, everything in their $217-a-month, two-bedroom apartment is fully paid for. Their only major bill is the note on their 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport, which will be paid off this year. The Hugheses hope to buy a home within the next five years. Meanwhile, says Hughes, "we're living comfortable, but it'll take me a few years to reach certain goals. I'm happy with the fact that...
...tiny shops offering everything from Persian carpets and Damascus silks to transistor radios. In the modern west end, tree-lined boulevards are full of patisseries, flower shops and fashionable boutiques, reminders of the days when Syria was a French mandate. There is little of Beirut's brilliant but plastic dolce vita atmosphere, yet plenty to suggest that Damascus and Syria are authentically Arab...
Skinners: plastic surgery...
...surprising vigor and independence. The CPSC has just raised loud protests from traditionalists by banning all firecrackers beginning next week - thus muting the Fourth of July. The commission is now scrimmaging with the management of the National Football League over whether to bar artificial turf in stadiums; falling on plastic turf, players complain, causes injuries far more severe than those resulting from being tackled on grass...
...Plastic Piece. McLaughlin, now 47, has become one of this new breed. Once an editor on America magazine and a popular lecturer on sex ("Intimacy Before Marriage," "Intimacy Outside Marriage"), McLaughlin turned to politics in 1970. He became a Republican, ran for the U.S. Senate from Rhode Island (John Pastore retained the seat), and then in 1971 went to work as a speechwriter on the White House staff at a salary of about $30,000. To distinguish between his sacerdotal and political roles, he abandoned the Roman collar ("a one-inch piece of plastic") except for church events. Last week...