Word: handbook
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Wright's credentials include the authorship of the definitive handbook on the federal court system. He was brought into the White House last year, before Watergate erupted, to craft constitutionally sound legislation that would reverse the wave of court decisions ordering busing to achieve racial balance in public schools. The antibusing bill Wright designed was stymied by the U.S. Senate, but Nixon was so impressed by his legal skills that Wright has become the constitutional specialist on the new White House team of lawyers parrying the legal thrusts of Watergate. It was Wright who wrote the White House refusal...
...School at 21. He then taught at Yale and the University of Minnesota before moving to Texas in 1955. A busy traveler who prefers trains to airplanes, Wright augments his $30,000 salary from the University of Texas with approximately $35,000 more from royalties on his bestselling handbook on the federal courts, a casebook on federal jurisdiction and procedure, and 13 volumes of a continuing series he has co-authored on federal practice. "Nobody in the country has done as much writing at his age as he has," says University of Texas Law School Dean W. Page Keeton. Wright...
...says Alston of Phase III, "we have the Mod Squad, the kids we are trying to integrate with the veterans while getting them to settle down and learn the game." Those lessons are to be found in "the book"-The Complete Baseball Handbook, an exhaustive 567-page tome co-authored by Alston and Recreation Author Donald Weiskopf that details everything from the construction of diamonds to the art of stealing catchers' signals...
...Regarding your article "Sex and Mao at Princeton" [April 30], I was sorry to note that you seem to have misread the introduction to the birth control handbook as myopically as Mr. Buckley. The booklet does denounce birth control, but not birth control as we know it, through contraception. The booklet denounces birth control through such methods as India's "voluntary" (i.e., paid) sterilization by surgery, a practice that was used as a "preventive measure" against hereditary mental defectiveness in some states in this country at the outset of this century...
After considering several pamphlets, SECH concluded that the Handbook was not only the cheapest available (4½? per copy compared with $1 for others) but that its medical content was the best. "It's a very complete, succinct and medically sound book," says SECH's director, Dr. Louis A. Pyle. The committee decided that controversy over the pamphlet's introduction could be avoided by disavowing, in a covering flyer, the "wornout S.D.S. rhetoric of the late 1960s." But before distributing the Handbook in March-seven months after approving it-SECH forgot to staple in the planned disclaimer...