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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1971
Page
11
Edith Stead reports a shift in fashion taste in 1971 with men favoring feminine dress. Veils return for day wear and flirt veils for evening, alongside romantic hats and puffed hair. Pants face a slow retreat from formal party wear as dresses regain traction, though early polls last year showed appetite for pants.
London AP reports that Britain recorded ten abortions per hour in 1970, a 56 percent rise in the rate since legal abortion began. Legal abortions reached 39,532 for single women including 1,791 under 16, with the total near 30,000 more than 1969.
Reader explains a method to soften and restore a hardened sugar block by steaming with boiling water and transferring to an airtight container. The block may be rehydrated with water, bread surrounding the container, and kept for several days until granules reform.
Molly asks senior citizen arts group how to mix snow for crafts using small round jars. She recalls crystals and another component in water and seeks reader guidance.
Step by step, the writer explains sewing a separating zipper into a sweatshirt jacket. Instructions cover turning the garment inside out, centering with a yardstick, placing the zipper tape along a traced track, hand-sewing edges, turning right side out, cutting the center, and finishing raw edges. The note tangentially comments that exposed zippers are attractive.
In San Francisco a public library catalogues titles once banned, including Ireland’s Studies in the Psychology of Sex and Hemingway's works withdrawn from schools. The display argues bans reflect cultural shifts, not relics of the Middle Ages, and cites specific suppressed volumes.
A display shows titles once banned for moral political or religious reasons. Notable works include Hemingway The Sun Also Rises Twain Huckleberry Finn Whitman Leaves of Grass and Galileo Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. The exhibit includes the library’s statement opposing book banning and its bill of rights urging challenges to censorship.
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