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Time had run out as a Princeton freshman, Justine Koeppen, stood alone at the foul line. Two teams and 30 spectators looked on. She bounced the ball once...twice. She took a deep breath, shot...and missed. No sighs emerged from the Princeton bench. No cheers sounded from the Harvard bench or the Briggs bleachers...
Actually no one, except, perhaps Koeppen's parents, cared much by then. The books would still record a 64-46 Princeton victory over the Harvard women's basketball team...
Fire chiefs have seen the consequences of this principle. Chief Bernie Koeppen of Wheeling, Ill., has changed to lime yellow, even for the department's ambulance. "In accident after accident involving red wagons," he notes, "all you hear is, 'I didn't see it. I didn't see it.' " Adds Chief Ed Underwood of St. Charles, Mo.: "The majority of fire fighters killed or wounded catch it on their way to fires. Red is dead. Lime yellow is the coming color...
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