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...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...
...Bolt. Sewing machines now do practically everything but press the finished garment. Dial a knob or change a foot and your machine can sew on buttons or make flawless buttonholes. Machines can also darn socks, embroider blouses and monogram pockets as well as baste, hem and stitch once "impossible" materials like leather and stretchable knits. In addition to all this, Singer's expensive Touch & Sew model ($439.95) has solid-state speed control enabling it to breeze through varying thicknesses of fabric without being reset. Today, however, many inexpensive machines (about $60) offer zigzag, hemming and stretch stitches plus...
...Home sewing used to be the dumping ground for the fabric industry," says Carol Bird, president of Off the Bolt, a chain of fabric shops in Los Angeles. "Now all that has changed. If a woman sees a dress she likes in a store, she can come into a fabric shop, ask for the identical fabric and get it." Five years ago, there were 2,300 fabric stores in the U.S.; today there are 12,000. Most popular sellers have been double knits, which are strong and stretchable, and bonded fabrics, which have a backing sealed to the cloth, making...
...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...