Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the sea blue of its cover, framing a color painting, often of a ship under full sail, through more than 150 pages laden with enticing boat ads, articles and pictures, Yachting is more than a pleasure sailor's handbook. Every issue is loaded to the gunwales with first-person true-adventure tales of men against the sea that are read as avidly by landlubbers as by yachtsmen. More than 75% of Yachting's articles come from yachtsmen (rate: $105 per 3,500-word article) who, with the help of Yachting's editors, set down their experiences...
Changes in the course's reading list are also being considered. Martin added that the General Education Handbook is being revised...
...November's elections, the New York State Committee of the Communist Party concluded that the Communists had made a serious mistake in concentrating their activities in "left-led and progressive" unions instead of being "active" in (i.e., infiltrating) "right-led labor and people's organizations." A recent handbook for party workers on how to build up a new "united front" says: "We must be ready to join movements and actions initiated by others . . . We must not attempt to include our full program on every issue . . . We must not hog the leadership...
...Yale plans revision of handbook for alumni...
...nationwide competition that grew keener after the war, Yale, like Harvard, countered by stepping up its program. Harvard, although it did not begin its intensification until 1949, quickly set up administration-alumni liaison, remanned Schools and Scholarships Committees, sent men out from University Hall on field trips, and issued handbooks explaining the set-up to alumni. Yale also issued a handbook for alumni, including criteria for admissions, and information on financial aid and expenses. Noyes' office expects to revise the book shortly, in order to bring alumni up to date on the program...