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Dressed as one might expect to find her--in a prep-plaid shirt, green sweater, blue blazer, penny loafers, and Nantucket accessories--Lisa Birnbach, editor and coauthor of "The Official Preppy Handbook" came to the Coop yesterday to sign copies of her book...
...from a nearby reservoir. National Guard escorts now accompany water trucks to the town; one truck was blown up last week and its driver killed. Ironically, the guerrilla-induced water shortage has transformed the government forces in Suchitoto into local heroes-hardly the tactics recommended in the guerrilla warfare handbook...
...selling experience during the summer of 1979 was extremely rewarding. I was sent with the Harvard group to Los Angeles, (hardly the "Bible Belt") where I sold educational books (the two-volume Webster's Student Handbook Set) door-to-door to middle-class families. The job was very intense: long hours on foot, six days a week. By the end of the summer, however. I had not only met more interesting people than I could hope to count, but had also made more than twice the average earnings of a first-year salesman...
...business--going door-to-door in a neighborhood selling educational and religious books, primarily the two-volume "Webster Student Handbook Set"--was a six-day-a-week, twelve-hour-a day enterprise. Johnson said, adding that he earned 43 per cent of sales, which ranged from $80 to $240 daily...
Once again, the Spartacus Youth League (SYL), a socialist youth group, is the target of administrative harassment at Harvard. Last spring the administration forcibly evicted the SYL from its campus office. According to the Official Rules Handbook, authorized student organizations are allowed office space. Yet the Friends of the Spartacus Youth League was locked out of its office and had its literature seized. We were replaced by none other than the infamous Harvard Delivery News Service (one of whose directors has allegedly absconded with thousands of dollars in funds). Then last semester, after having been evicted for this alleged thief...