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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...
...fall in love and are ridiculed by their parents, teachers and peers, but who eventually wed in a ceremony conducted by the boy's best friend (Jack Wild). The denouement finds all the school kids backing the prepubescent romance and holding their teachers off while the happy couple pump away into the sunset on a railroad handcar. There are some good secondary scenes of teasing and classroom high jinks, and excellent photography by Peter Suschitzky, who tries to give spice to an otherwise far too sugary project...
...York State has 124 pump-out stations-only 18 of them on the coasts. The New York side of Long Island Sound, plied by many thousands of boats, has only three stations. If only half of the 30,000 toilet-equipped boats in New York's coastal waters headed for the pump-out stations at the close of a weekend, there would be almost 1,000 boats lined up at each station; round-the-clock pumping would take about three weeks...
Weekend Crush. By contrast. New York State's new law makes no sense. Carelessly written in a seeming effort to make political capital out of the public concern over pollution, the statute relies heavily on holding tanks. State officials have outlawed any alternative overboard pumping systems. Yet the state has failed to provide, or require marinas to install, sufficient pump-out stations. After suspending enforcement for four years, New York decided to crack down this spring. Lawmen have been told that they may now board a boat without a warrant to ascertain whether it has an approved toilet. Operating...
Even if New York's coasts had enough pump-out stations, interstate absurdities would remain. A boatman from New Jersey, which has no such law, is subject to being boarded and charged with an offense while passing through New York waters to Connecticut, which has no pump-out stations. A New Yorker leaving his home port on western Long Island Sound for Massachusetts or Maine is in violation of the law for the first few miles if he has an overboard flushing system. Yet he cannot cruise far beyond the Sound unless he has such a system. Meantime, critics...