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...just an ordinary day. Mom was at the store, taking back a party dress she swore she had never once put on (it was only slightly stained with lipstick). Sister, browsing in the Teen Scene department, was staring with fascination at a pair of earrings she might just forget to pay for, if no one was going to be looking too hard. Sonny was in school, doing pretty well on a math test by dint of some judicious copying from a friend's paper. And Dad was busy at the office, adding a few fictitious lunches to his expense...
...economic crimes," which during 1962-64 sent at least 163 per sons to the firing squads. More than half of them had Jewish names, leading to charges that Jews were being made the scapegoats for a chronic Soviet ill: the notorious pilferage from state-owned factories of everything from lipstick to girls' sweaters, for sale at a profit. Last week another such case was revealed - and again the big name was Jewish...
...Shot of Lemon Squash. Even more far-reaching-though more subtle-is the social revolution overtaking Saudi Arabia. Many Saudi women now sport lipstick, eye shadow and slacks under their shapeless black shrouds and dark veils. Their daughters are going to school for the first time. Any student -male or female-who can win admission to a foreign university receives full expenses and a generous living allowance. Of his own eight sons, Feisal has sent the youngest seven abroad for schooling, including his bright, second oldest son Prince Mohamed bin Feisal, 29, the country's first royal prince ever...
...snob, but his views are crisply delivered. "I did jeweled eyes for the magazines, and now women call and say they want them," he moans. "It is not to be believed." Pablo has strong dislikes: "Pink foundation is awful, green eyeshadow is vulgar, eyebrows are hateful, dark lipstick is obsolete." What he favors, and has made fashionable, is makeup that shows yet seems effortless: healthy, glowing skin, light lipstick, and fascinating, fluttering eyes-"the only part really worth making...
...Sunglasses now sell faster than lipstick and makeup," says Sea & Ski Corp. President William Randall. "Women buy wardrobes of them, just as they do shoes." And like all fashions, variety is their spice. This spring the vogue is for bold geometries: big, wide rectangles, squares, octagons and ovals, in dazzling op designs. Frames come in all black, all white, one eye black and the other white, black and white stripes, checks, or combinations of both. Just for fun, some glasses come armed with roll-up awnings and huge fake eyelashes; others sport spectacular papier-mâché designs glued...