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Sew ing Is Big in New York and Other Odds and Ends
AP roundup notes American women still sew at home with 41 million crafters using about $800 million in fabrics yearly. It surveys futurist ideas from birth-control chemicals to space capsule wiring, plus quirky facts about Hayes, Carson, flight fears, and a lifetime of random trivia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lyndon Johnson
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Johnson
U.S
William Howard Taft
Rutherford B. Hayes
Boston
Melvin M. Ketchel
Lester B. Dill
Meramec Caverns
Missouri
Johnny Carson
Duke and Duchess of Bedford
Herbert Kastle
National Geographic
Alaska
Benjamin Franklin