Word: booklet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bored one night on the subway, and reflecting on my ill-spent youth, I noticed a passel of pre-paid post cards dangling overhead. Wayne School in Chicago offered me--free and with no obligation, a card said--a booklet that would tell me how I could complete my high school education at home. I sent in the card...
...young woman, dressed in black mortarboard and academic robes, stared at me from the cover. They have seen what it's like, I thought, the sock-hops and the hoop frays, the twirling batons and the blaring bands. Tears welled to my eyes as I opened the booklet...
Thousands of routine jobs [the booklet continued] which formerly could be handled by unschooled help have now been swallowed up by computers and push button machines. The better jobs remaining, which pay more money and offer more possibilities for promotion call for the better type of applicant. With more knowledge and more abilities. Employers have come to regard the high school graduate as the better type of applicant they are looking...
...diet craze: drink all the martinis and whisky you want, stow away marbled steaks and roast duck, never mind the fats. Forget calorie counting, but avoid sugar and starchy foods as though they were poison. Adherents of the fad take as their battle cry the title of a paperback booklet, The Drinking Man's Diet (Cameron & Co.; $1). The book's contents are a cocktail of wishful thinking, a jigger of nonsense and a dash of sound advice...
...year ago a series of essays on the examination system by faculty members was published in a short booklet. But no legislation or further discussion is presently planned by the Administration...