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...rice, there is never enough to eat, and women can be seen selling penny candy, gum, flashlight batteries, salt-anything to turn a small profit to fill out the spartan diet. When the bread trucks come, covered with flies, young boys sneak up, reach in and steal an extra loaf for their families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Refugees: Journey Without End | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...were deserted, shops closed, restaurants barricaded. Only a few sampans plied the Perfume River. Some of the buildings of Hue University were used to house refugees. Once a day a dump truck arrived loaded with loaves of flyspecked 'welfare' bread. Each family of five was given one loaf a day, and nothing more. 'All the people with enough money have gone,' one middle-aged refugee told me. 'Only we are left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEEK'S ACTION: South Viet Nam: Pulling Itself Together | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...Medical School professor has termed the recent report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse "less than half a loaf" in a critique written for the National Organization for Rationalization of Marihuana Laws (NORML...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grinspoon Says Pot Report Is 'Less Than Half a Loaf' | 3/30/1972 | See Source »

...first week," she says, "you call home and say you ve got to work late but the meat-loaf is ready to go so why doesn't he just put it in the oven? Next week you call home and tell him you've left all the ingredients out on the counter and suggest he stir them together and put the loaf in the oven. The third week you call and say that everything is in the refrigerator and he knows how to put it together from last week. The fourth week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Meatloaf Gambit | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...flock of advertisers fleeing the home screen. The FTC has also called for companies using promotions that it deems deceptive to run "corrective" ads admitting the error. One such commercial is being broadcast for Profile Bread, which was touted by the Ted Bates Agency as a diet loaf, though its only contribution to weight reduction was thinner-than-usual slices. In the corrective ad, Actress Julia Meade flatly admits: "But eating Profile will not cause you to lose weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Madison Avenue's Travail | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

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