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Tugging at hems has been a feminine wile ever since skirts got off the floor, but more and more U.S. girls are now looking for a new parlor trick. Their skirts are soaring so high that no amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Courage of Courr | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

After weeks of hemming, hawing, consulting and promising, President Kennedy last week sent to Capitol Hill a package of civil rights legislation. He did so under the pressures of the Negro revolution that was bursting out all over. But once he moved, he moved hard.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The President's Package | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

Once set to work, the machine eats up yarn and knits in a frenzy. It works in eight colors and three dimensions, making the garment an exact fit for the figure for which it was designed. An elaborately tailored dress, ready for buttons and hemming, takes about 52 minutes. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mechanics: How to Knit a Yacht | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

Sullivan owns the land under the Cambridge side of the Charles in front of the Yacht Club. He could easily sink the barge in about six feet of water on the area laid out in his foundation permit, thus obstructing motorboating throughout the Charles and severely hemming in crafts docked...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Sullivan May Block Charles River By Submerging Large, Ugly Barge | 4/17/1962 | See Source »

Wagner's announcement came after three months of hemming and hawing about his own candidacy and his choice of running mates. The mayor had been under heavy pressure from dissident camps about his ticket. Democratic reformers led by Eleanor Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman wanted Wagner to dump both City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Pleasing to Few | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

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