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...five-year-old son Brandon. Joel Stillman, 38, and his wife Renee, 38, of suburban Detroit spent $800 on smart-looking ski outfits and equipment for their son Jonathon, 11, and daughter Sara, 8. Karen Topalian, 40, bought her daughter Kendra, almost 2, a $120 yellow pima cotton frock. Says Topalian, who lives in Cohasset, Mass.: "I love my children to look nice...
...traditional dress but to her life. From her first crude attempts at the difficult reverse applique, a Kuna woman will stitch on her mola daily, first for her trousseau, then to sell. Yet when the corps arrived in 1963, Indian women were shedding their artful garb for cheap cotton dresses, and it was feared the unique craft of the mola would be lost, along with the cash it earned the Indians. The volunteers organized a Cooperativa de Productos de Mola. By the time I arrived to organize the eager women on Playon Chico, the co-op had grown...
Encasing eggs in such materials as styrofoam, Jell-O, cotton, balloons, and even a dead chicken, a few students succeeded in hitting a bull's-eye five stories down--with their eggs intact...
Corriere said that security is extremely lax in the student dorms. "They prop doors open with pizza boxes and cover locks with cotton and tape so they don't have to worry about getting locked out," Corriere said...
...best curves I ever saw--he throws it so hard! The damn thing breaks nearly from the guy's shoulder to the ground." Evidently, Hubbell has been studying him on television. "That's the kids' advantage, don't you see? I was raised on a cotton farm in Meeker, Okla. Didn't even get a newspaper. Never saw so much as a picture of a real major league pitcher in his windup...