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...Although ostensibly private organizations, they have received considerable financial and editorial aid from the CIA (which is, of course, "empowered to undertake unspecified activities abroad," and does). Radio Free Europe is manned by embittered anticommunist intellectuals from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, and broadcasts from Munich, but its handbook states that it "cannot take a line contrary to United States Government policy or to the beliefs of the United States and American institutions." Radio Liberty (formerly Radio Liberation) is designed to foment anti-Soviet aggression wherever socialist take-over beckons. Both Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty played notable...
...popular movements, and working out tactics the movements can use to win power, and gain some real measure of control over community life. Over and over. Alinsky has made his method work: his localized revolutions have taken the power they were after. His book is, among other things, a handbook in what he calls (with characteristic immodesty) the Alinsky method: " The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away...
...described in the latest U.S. Dictionary of Occupational Titles, and 82 million are working at them. But it is hard to fit man to title. As a purely practical matter, college students would be well advised to study the Labor Department's biennial Occupational Outlook Handbook, the mainstay of any careers counselor. It points out, for example, that the elementary-teaching field threatens to become overcrowded, but the outlook is better for teachers of the handicapped and of children in both urban ghettos and rural districts. It also describes other kinds of work like oceanography, which will be used...
First on any ecology reading list is the Environmental Handbook (95c), a collection of extremely good essays on every conceivable aspect of the crisis. Next, we offer The User's Guide to the Protection of the Environment ($1.25), an encyclopedic investigation of the real consequences of everyday living. It deals comprehensively with brand-name products, nutrition, gardening, soaps, and garbage. Unfortunately it spends only twelve words discussing alternative life-styles as possible solutions to some of our ecological and psychic afflictions. So, important a reference work as it is, no library would be balanced without a Whole Earth Catalog -which...
...wait, don't turn away yet. (Admit it now, everyone's entitled to one gratuitous beautiful. ) For even Rags knows you can't fill 60 pages with assorted freaks on little head trips. And that's why Rags is also part Boy Scout Handbook. Whole Earth Catalogue, and 1898 Sears Roebuck advertisement...