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...months went by the cast grew to more than 100 members, the scenes multiplied to thirty, the chorus to 250 voices and the choral score was refined into 263 pages. Nearly 500 costumes were needed, along with 30 seamstresses to sew them. Costs were kept down by relying on volunteers. Says Martha Knight: "I didn't want to go to theater groups asking for people because the purpose of the production is to be not only a work of art, but an act to the greater glory of God. There has to be that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A City Discovers Its Gothic Psyche | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...Quakers, rolling to their fifth straight Ivy win, utilized a 12--6 domination in point weapon competition to sew up undisputed possession of the Ivy fencing championship and push Harvard one step closer to the other end of the Ivy standings...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Penn Subdues Fencers, 15-12, To Capture Ivy Championship | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

SHIAO MEI is 19 years old, and one of 20 girls who sew light blue buttons to light blue-shirts in a factory in the Export Processing Zone at Kaohsiung. Thirteen out of every fourteen days, she rides her rusty bicycle from the dormitory, where she lives in a fourth floor room with seven other girls...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee jr., | Title: 'Welcome to the Republic of China' | 1/9/1973 | See Source »

...back down at her work, unconsciously picking up her speed. One of the Americans stops and admires Shiao Mei's hands in action, but Shiao Mei does not look up. Soon the American moves on, pausing ten rows up in admire the hands of one of the girls that sew maroon buttons on maroon shirts...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee jr., | Title: 'Welcome to the Republic of China' | 1/9/1973 | See Source »

...grisly logistics are not as difficult as they may appear to be. Smugglers with access to military facilities apparently have managed to sew the heroin into the corpses in Southeast Asia. While the body count is low these days, it only takes a few to bring in a sizable cache of drugs. The smugglers can do this-as well as travel back and forth at will-by dint of counterfeit credentials. On this flight the heroin was presumably removed at Hickam Field, where many military transports from Indochina stop for 16 to 24 hours before proceeding to the mainland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Coffins and Corruptions | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

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