Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school is broadening its training in counterguerrilla warfare, numbers among its students officers from Latin American and Southeast Asian countries. "Once a guerrilla force knows that it is being stalked by hostile guerrillas, its full attention must be focused on the destruction of this immediate threat," says the Army handbook. One aim is to persuade enemy guerrillas to switch sides. Such converts usually become impassioned, "galvanized guerrillas," often the best for intelligence work...
Britons were comfortably reassured last week that they never had it so good. Two families out of three, said an official government handbook, have a television set and vacuum cleaner, one in three has a washing machine, one in eight a refrigerator. Half the population spend their holidays away from home, and half the younger generation attend the movies once a week at 50? a seat. One-quarter of the adult population either play in or watch a football (soccer) or cricket match every week. All this, plus the superior feeling that one has just for being English...
Honest Materials. The church form most suited to worship varies greatly in the minds of U.S. churchmen. It ranges from such early classics as Carpenter Lavius Fillmore's First Congregational Church in Bennington, Vt., derived from an 18th century American builder's handbook adapting the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, to the asymmetrical, aspiring structures of Frank Lloyd Wright, whose intention, in churches like Redding, Calif.'s soon-to-be-built Pilgrim Congregational Church, was to create a wholly new and American architecture. Today the right to use materials naturally and unadorned (as Wright would have them...
...principle, all the food that Russians eat comes, or should come, from either collective or state-owned farms. But in stubborn practice, an astonishingly high proportion of the Russian diet, especially on its tastier side, is still supplied by private farming. Last week a new Soviet handbook provided statistics...
...Norfolk & Western Railway, which reaches from Norfolkthrough the West Virginia coal fields up to southern Ohio is one of the nations best-run railroads. A ride over its main line, says the Handbook of American Railroads, instills "a sense that everything is in 'apple-pie order' and as it should be. "The road is also growth-minded; last year the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a merger between the N. & W. and the Virginian, the first merger of two independently owned railroads in this century. Last week the road's go-ahead President Stuart T. Saunders announced...