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...never discovered why she was being held, was crammed for ten months with six others into a pit cage at the most notorious prison on Con Son island. "It smelled so foul at times that we wanted to die," she said. "When we asked for water, they dropped lime on us. It burned our skin and eventually blinded me." Prisoners who cannot buy their food from guards subsist on the prison diet of rice, salt and occasional dried fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Thieu's Political Prisoners of War | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

...THOMAS LIGHT Lime Rock, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1972 | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...more. He has to take a position on style and fashion, believe in it and explain it to the consumer." Sakowitz's position now is that the big seller in women's clothes for next spring will be "soft sherbet colors, milky colors -like elegant apricot, lime, melon and strawberry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Plying While Playing | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...could decide to let the Administrations implement the recommendations itself or it could present the report to the entire Faculty for consideration. If the report goes to the Faculty. Which is most likely, Kilson has indicated he may introduce some legislation to bring the report's recommendations back into lime with his own feelings...

Author: By Douglas E.schoen, | Title: The Politics of the Afro Department | 11/4/1972 | See Source »

...switchover may create problems. Ted Haberman, manager of Pueblo West, Colo., points out that automobile drivers are accustomed to red as the danger color, and that since many Americans ride in air-conditioned cars with the windows rolled up, they may not hear the siren from approaching, unfamiliar lime yellow wagons. Simple tradition may also militate against a wholesale switch from red. But as Dr. Solomon accurately observes: "Firemen have one tradition that is stronger, and that is to stay alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fire-Engine Yellow | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

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