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...rank and file, however, remained skeptical. They assembled at their locals to hear the pact explained and to ask questions. Each miner was handed a copy of the contract in a 36-page booklet. No literary scholar is better at reading between the lines than a miner, who treats a contract as reverently as the Bible and even takes it underground in case there is a grievance. The more the miners read, the angrier many of them became...
...biggest limiting factor in the video opportunities at Harvard is probably the fact that information about the opportunities that are available is limited. No one hands the incoming freshman a booklet on video at registration day, as happens with so many other opportunities. Bob DesMaisons, manager of the Video Service Center, says, "It's a chicken and egg problem." You can't make the opportunities broadly available until you have generated interest in them, and you can't generate interest in the activities until you have them and can tell people about them...
...report, which Goodwin said was greeted with "mixed reactions," suggests consideration of a booklet on energy conservation to increase the benefit of energy consciousness...
Hale's main purpose was to try to study the motives and develop descriptive categories of the unchurched. The results, just published in a 99-page booklet, are impressionistic but provocative. The tiniest group identified is what Hale calls the True Unbelievers-agnostics, humanists and atheists-most of whom turn out to be only latent unbelievers who often express a certain longing for faith. By far the largest group is the Publicans, named after Jesus' story in Luke 18 about the prayers of the Pharisee and the Publican. Whether they themselves are humble or self-righteous, Hale...
Even more heretical are clandestine political pamphlets that attack Mao's successor. One anonymous booklet called "A Road to Proletarian Opposition-or to Rightist Surrender?" accuses Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and his "clique" of arresting Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and her "Gang of Four" in order to "grab power with great haste." The booklet also charges the new regime-insult of insults-with slandering the memory of the late Great Helmsman...