Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they do not see that guerilla warfare is more than skill. Guerillas require the active support of a sizable portion of the area they occupy. Indeed, the Communists consider guerilla warfare nothing less than a means of social revolution. It is the same Che Guevara, after all, whose guerilla handbook American soldiers now study, who described effective guerillas as ready "to die, not to defend an ideal, but to convert it into reality...
...Complete Handbook of Stone Printing, he told all his secrets, and thus, just as Gutenberg fathered the great industry of printing from type, Senefelder gave the world the basic process widely used in offset printing (though now usually from zinc plates rather than stone). But beyond its commercial uses, the lithograph has been especially dear to the artist. Through this medium, he can spread his message wide and yet know that no matter how many copies are made, each lithograph will retain his personal touch...
...world's longest mustache? Who was the world's most productive mother? No standard reference book troubles with such trivia, but an offbeat guide called The Guinness Book of Records answers such questions with gusto. And because it does, Guinness has become a useful handbook for any newspaperman who wants to spice a story with a few superlatives. Last week the second U.S. edition was rolling off the presses with the latest answers to unlikely questions: the world's mustache champ, says the new Guinness, is Masudiya Din. a Bombay Brahman who sports...
...will not share in the costs of building shelters in commercial or industrial buildings. Neither will it participate in any sort of shelter program for individual families.* A detailed handbook on shelters, titled "Fallout Protection," which was prepared by government civil defense experts and the editors of LIFE, has been jettisoned-to be replaced by a bland tract that will be distributed in January...
...public discussion was stronger than ever. Meanwhile, a second species of left-wing extremists made trouble for the orthodox branch of the party. Not long ago, Brazilian police investigating their militant Peasant Leagues in the poverty-stricken northeast found copies of Mao Tse-tung's famous guerrilla warfare handbook, translated into Portuguese, with illustrations in which Chinese faces had been carefully changed to Latin American faces...