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...international relief agency. The worker had been arrested by Salvadoran security police on charges of providing supplies to the guerrillas. Imprisoned for several days in a secret, soundproof room at police headquarters in downtown San Salvador, he was stretched on a rotating wheel, beaten severely and forced to swallow lime. The victim was also strung up by his hands and feet while his genitals were squeezed in a wire vise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Overcoming the Doubts | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...recalls, the department spent two days on Marx; one to present his theories, and one to explain why they were wrong. Ten years later, after reading Marx thoroughly, Marglin still reached the conclusion that Marx's broad theory was invalid, yet he refused to discard Marx entirely He, lime many radical economics, abandoned Marx's strict gospel in favor of newer theories Yet Margin charges few students of mainstream economics understand or appreciate this shift Otto Eckstein. Warburg Professor of Economics says there is not much non Marxist radical theory Few mainstream economists would dispute Eckstein's assertion, and most...

Author: By Michael S. Terris, | Title: Radical Isolation | 5/21/1982 | See Source »

...wisdom. No one fully glimpses her past until a warmer-than-drawing-room-temperature confrontation in Act III with the judge (I.M. Hobson) who convicted her. Miss Madrigal, it develops, tended a garden during her 15-year sentence for murder. Under her wise ministrations the lime-based waste patch of the play's title also promises to flourish, along with the love-parched inhabitants of the manor house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Owl of Wisdom | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

Golf's reaction to its pallor has been as unnatural as most of the players' reactions are to anything. New concepts of golf courses: "stadium" golf, "target" golf. New shades of golf balls: orange and lime ones that resemble kumquats and brussel sprouts rolling along the yard. In an unusual attempt to liven things up and make himself distinguishable from the other blonds, Jerry Pate has actually taken to throwing himself into water hazards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Along Came a Walrus | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...oddity was that five of the jurors were under 24, all singles who had been living at home with their parents, and they naturally formed a social group. They invented a cocktail they called the "Pontiac" (Amaretto and soda with a twist of lime). They held occasional mock trials at which one of them proved adept at imitating the lawyers involved in the case. On April Fools' Day, Linda Tumino, 21, hid in the back of the sheriffs bus and caused a momentary panic among the deputies when they found themselves missing one juror. "All it was was party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Eight Months to a Verdict | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

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