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Sales of home sewing machines have more than doubled since 1948, to about 1,500,000 a year, because the new machines embroider, darn, quilt, overcast, link two edges without overlapping, sew on buttons, make buttonholes-do virtually everything except dry cleaning. These wonders are mainly attributable to the invasion of foreign machines (about 1,000,000 a year), such as Italy's Necchi, which ten years ago caught staid old Singer with its slip showing. The new gadgets on Necchi and other machines shrank Singer's sales in the U.S. from its two-thirds grip...
Because Bobby's blood made a stain on the soft green wall-to-wall carpet, Diana dashed into his bedroom for a quilt to cover his body. Then, rifle loaded for the next shot of planned mercy, she sat down and waited until her mother drove up half an hour later and started up the walk. "I saw then that there was no way I could shoot her without her seeing me, and I didn't want her to see me shoot her, so I yelled at her not to come in the house. I didn...
...view of France's crazy-quilt regime, shouldn't the "Big Three" now be called the "Big Two-and-a-Half...
Victory. For two months, from the time he was accepted until he left for Moscow, Van shut himself away in his tiny Manhattan apartment on 57th Street across from Carnegie Hall and spent six to eight hours a day at his quilt-covered Steinway practicing the staggering repertory each entrant was expected to master. Plagued with colitis, he dutifully went in for dieting and rigorous physical conditioning, boosted his strength with massive doses of vitamins and six packages of Knox gelatin a day. Sundays he checked his progress with Mme. Lhevinne, or gave small private recitals for groups of friends...
...disagreements that plague nations, few are quite so exasperating as the question: How far out to sea can a country claim territorial jurisdiction? When the 1930 Hague Codification Conference failed to find an answer, the world was left with a crazy-quilt situation in which some nations claimed a three-mile territorial sea limit, others claimed four, six, ten, twelve, 200, or all the water covering the continental shelf. Last week in Geneva an 86-nation U.N Law of the Sea Conference finished more than two months of meetings on the subject, and put the question to a vote...