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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...
...degree in international relations at Georgetown University. During the Kennedy Administration, he was named deputy to one of the Defense Department whiz kids, Joseph Califano, who later became President Johnson's domestic adviser. Califano, in turn, recommended Haig to Henry Kissinger as "one of the new breed of sophisticated Army officers...
...natural scientist as well as a machine-breaker and Henry Miller, though he studied (on his own) enough science to pass ten Nat Sci courses still passionately wanted to dynamite the whole industrial face of Brooklyn and let the splinters fall into the polluted Hudson River. Familiarity didn't breed anything but contempt...
...week as allowance, and she banks it. It seems a country star hardly has to buy anything. "A lot of people give you things," says Tanya genially. "Western belts. A white monster of a truck I call Moby Dick. And a man from South Dakota gave me a new breed of cow with a talent for putting weight on fast. A doctor in Houston promised me a pinto quarter horse if I would just stay the same and not get stuck up for two years. I've got about eight months to go now before I can go back...
...Deficit. Whatever happens to the controls and tax bills, they are setting the stage for a first-class political fight that will likely continue through the fall elections. Most Administration officials want to get rid of controls once and for all, arguing that they only breed shortages of goods by holding prices down artificially. In opposing a tax reduction, the President and his aides argue that putting more spending money in consumers' hands and intensifying demand would only fan inflation. Moreover, the White House estimates that the federal deficit in fiscal 1975, even without a tax cut, will...