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...know Spanish, sat cross-legged on the wrecked cama nodding. To Merilee he said. "Will you be my esposo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...kerosene and set them on fire. Then we would call our gravedigger." A girl told how she was left alone without medical care while giving birth to her child, which then died and was buried in the ranch yard. The most feared torture was what the sisters called the cama real (royal bed), a narrow board onto which girls were placed and wrapped in barbed wire so that even the slightest movement caused a cut. Sessions on the cama real lasted for days at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Sisters of Shame | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...telling a watchful clerk at the British European Airways counter in London that because of more convenient flight times he would have to fly Air France. But then, after thinking through the whole story of De Gaulle's act and its consequences as he wrote his report, he cama to a second-wave conclusion shared by other TIME correspondents working on the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Feb. 8, 1963 | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

While still in his teens he commenced to build up the great chain of establishments trading between Italy and the Near East, which have given him wealth, power and the opportunity to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. His rise to diplomatic prominence cama when Premier Giolitti called upon him, as an authority in Near Eastern affairs, to negotiate the peace treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli (1911-12). And since then his success as Governor of Tripoli, and later as Finance Minister, has endeared him greatly to the House of Savoy and set him high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Volpi's Commission | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

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