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...Stuff Sew-It-Yourself Furniture patterns for making legless sofas, beds and chairs that are basically overstuffed slipcovers. Patterns are easier to use now, too. Many are two or even one-piece designs that can be zipped up by the most fumble-fingered amateur. Some companies offer package deals-precut material that is ready to sew-and one even computerizes patterns that are made to fit an individual customer after the taking of 17 separate measurements...
...cemetery in the town of Albiano Magra (pop. 1,500), 60 miles southeast of Genoa, was filled to capacity, and in order to make space the town fathers ordered the construction of a large concrete wall with precut niches to fit average-length coffins. The Socialist-Communist city planners thought they solved the problem neatly, but when some coffins had to be shaved at both ends because their occupants were too long for their resting place, Christian Democrats angrily accused the Marxists of tampering with the dead "just as you trim the budget...
Solomon's Reign. In Paterson, N.J. suing for divorce, Mrs. Bessie Sigel complained that her husband Solomon 1) demanded that his meals be served course by course while he lounged on the living-roon sofa, 2) always checked to see that his food had been precut in bite-size chunks 3) dumped his plate on the floor if her cooking displeased...
...secret of Nelson's low price is that he applied the techniques of mass production (i.e., a standard design and precut parts) to his houses plus a liberal use of the new "do it yourself" idea (TIME, June 30 et seq.). His men grade the site and lay a concrete slab foundation, which is left to dry for a week. Then a truck dumps off floor beams, wall sections and other parts of a house. In 27 minutes two men bolt the frames together, throw up the walls and hoist the roof in place. Insulating material, then three coats...
...first of some 250,000 sailors and would-be sailors were "piped aboard." Biggest news at the show this year are mass-produced, prefabricated "kit-boats," which an amateur boatbuilder can put to gether for as little as 50% of the cost of buying a finished boat. Completely precut, right down to drilled holes and fitted joints, the kit-boats range in size from an 8-ft. pram by Roberts Industries ($35) and an 18-ft. outboard cruiser by Manhattan's U-Mak-It ($528 without motor) to a 31-ft. Chris-Craft cabin cruiser ($1,995). Chris-Craft...