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...years from it. Fifty years ago, Texans were riding against Pancho Villa. That's history pretty close by. Here in Texas there is a first generation of city dwellers who understand the country. People who live in cities still know how to work hard, get up early, sew and cook. They still put up provisions and keep vegetable gardens. These are a thrifty people. These are people who say, 'If you don't need it, don't buy it.' Lots of city people, just like country people, have just one good suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: Close to the Land | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...Experimental Theatre, which has no admission charge, will present a new play each week during the summer season, and gives Summer School students a unique opportunity to act, direct, design and even write for the theatre. Students lacking experience in these areas are also needed to type, sew, and do art work for the productions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experimental Theatre To Produce Musical | 7/1/1963 | See Source »

Babies born with transposition of the great vessels-the aorta where the pulmonary artery ought to be, and vice versa -now face a problem for which there is no true cure. Why not cut out the baby's heart, ask the Stanford men. turn it around and sew it back so that the two sides of the heart exchange jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Best Hope of All | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...sufficient number want to play boccie, Webb supplies an alley. There are potter's wheels for the potters, easels for the painters. In a proliferation of more than 90 clubs and organizations, Sun City oldsters bicycle and grow vegetables, take pictures, dance, do exercises, sing, sew. act, bowl, swim, and play almost every kind of game from canasta to chess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family: A Place in the Sun | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...Ottawa it was clear that someone had begun laying the groundwork in early May. Washington was so well braced that Canadian representatives were able to sew up the credits ($300 million from the International Monetary Fund. $400 million from the Export-Import Bank, $250 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, $100 million from the Bank of England) just two hours after they arrived at IMF headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Hard News | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

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