Word: sew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SHIAO MEI is 19 years old, and one of 20 girls who sew light blue buttons to light blue-shirts in a factory in the Export Processing Zone at Kaohsiung. Thirteen out of every fourteen days, she rides her rusty bicycle from the dormitory, where she lives in a fourth floor room with seven other girls...
...grisly logistics are not as difficult as they may appear to be. Smugglers with access to military facilities apparently have managed to sew the heroin into the corpses in Southeast Asia. While the body count is low these days, it only takes a few to bring in a sizable cache of drugs. The smugglers can do this-as well as travel back and forth at will-by dint of counterfeit credentials. On this flight the heroin was presumably removed at Hickam Field, where many military transports from Indochina stop for 16 to 24 hours before proceeding to the mainland...
...took five stitches to sew up the slit over his left eye, and he bled for the first time in his professional career. Still, with a 41-lb. weight advantage. Heavyweight ex-Champion Muhammad Ali succeeded in clobbering Light Heavyweight Champion Bob Foster in Stateline, Nev.-knocking him down seven times and finishing him off with a knockout in the eighth round. "All through the fight, he gave me trouble," Ali admitted. "I got bruised and I got cut, something Joe Frazier or nobody else could do." But as he held an ice pack to his eye, Ali added...
...stay in fashion more readily than her friends who wear store-bought frocks. She can make just about anything, too. There are now patterns for panty hose, lingerie and bathing suits as well as men's suits, shirts and overcoats. Butterick even has Stitch N' 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...
...Lucille Rivers, the Julia Child of sewing, is seen daily on 100 local stations throughout the country, and draws an amazing 20,000 letters a week. Textilers are advertising as never before, wooing home sewers on the air and in print. Department stores, hurt by the proliferation of fabric stores, are pushing their own pins and needles with fashion contests and sew-ins accompanied by rock bands to attract teenagers. Singer dropped its sewing classes some years ago and began to retail stereos as well as sewing machines to pump up profits. Now the company has reintroduced its classes, with...