Word: seamstressing
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...just cooking with gas-she was making, of all things, clothes. Reporting a survey indicating that 37 million U.S. women make an average of 20 garments a year per family. McCall's Patterns noted that one of its foremost pattern purchasers is Gypsy, turned do-it-yourself seamstress, possibly as penance for all those years of professional disdain. . . . In Vogue as the ninth in the magazine's series of "fashion personalities": pool-eyed Princess Radziwill, 27, third wife of a Polish nobleman turned London businessman. The Princess, married once before, is the former Lee Bouvier, and like...
...chartered Pan American flight from Munich. Young Andrejs Suritis was born in a Bavarian displaced persons camp to Latvian parents who originally fled Riga in 1944, hours ahead of the Red army. Now he was bound for Kalamazoo, Mich., where his mother already has a job as a seamstress and his father expects to find work as a radio technician...
...some support. Says a pretty young seamstress: "What Beth wants is no more unwed mothers running around here, shoving pickneys off on old grandmothers to raise." But one island matron sniffed that "Beth Jacobs is just teaching single girls how to use contraceptives." Bishop John J. McEleney warned the Roman Catholic 6% of the population against the clinic. Occasional signs chalked on walls say, "Birth control is a plan to kill Negroes...
Toit, Terre, Travail. The D.P.s came to them from as far away as Siberia-a Czech who once taught Latin, an elderly seamstress, a family who lived 14 years in refugee camps. But for Pire. they were never "beggars living off our crumbs." They got "toit, terre, travail" (roof, land, work): "We help them, but only halfway, the other half coming from them." He thought it essential for women to find pride in keeping a clean house with curtains at the windows, and men in earning their own wages, before the "weight of the odor and the noise...
Amid a torrent of abuse, the police whisked the head man, one "Professor" Arturo Rogelio Ferrari, and his students off to the station. It was quite a haul: two lawyers from Bolivia, a literature professor from Ecuador, a schoolteacher from Caracas, another from Panama, a tailor from Colombia, a seamstress from Peru, a mason frorrwltaly. All were following a six-month course that had started four months before. All lived in strict discipline. Reveille was at 6 a.m. to the strains of the Soviet Air Force march. The "students" studied Latin American politics and economics, the place of women...