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...Berets going into immediate distribution and Ulysses hobbled by censors and X ratings. Meyer goes to the underbelly of the dilemna and shows little old ladies with their shopping baskets in their laps just how nasty sex can be. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a middle-class handbook on the limits of sexual experience, and if you can't squeeze the lessons out of the narrative, Meyer recants the dilemnas of each character at the end of the film. The announcer says of a lesbian "it was not because of her strange tastes that she died...
...learned that 'scat' does not scare away bears. At last he moved away, so damned casually, following a moose trail into the woods." When the bear returned next evening to pound again on the cabin wall, Birnbaum heeded his How to Stay Alive in the Woods handbook, which advised speaking softly instead of shouting at wild creatures. He opened the door and pleaded: "Please go away, bear." The animal ambled...
Bang-Zone. Like Proxmire, ecologists are concerned about the potential threat of the SST to the environment. Many of their misgivings are documented in the S/S/T and Sonic Boom Handbook, a hot-selling (150,000 copies to date) paperback edited by William Shurcliff, director of a pressure group called the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. The Handbook contends that a single SST, flying from New York to California, would leave a "bang-zone" 50 miles wide by 2,000 miles long. But some tests indicate that this bang at SST's operational height of 60,000 ft. will...
While the Handbook doesn't pretend to reveal any magical tactics for earning a CO, it does provide nuggets of practical information for the sincere objector. Its extensive citations from court decisions. its quotations on what constitutes a "religious" objection, and its sampling of hostile questions from draft board members may make the difference between a successful CO claim and an unsuccessful resister, mired in the jungle or in jail. A detailed and sometimes gruesome description of court procedure and prison life is also necessary for those who plan complete resistance...
...hundred more. if all are properly informed. The problem is that such campaigns of attrition will be futile-and will lead to even greater class discrimination in the draft-as long as thousands of victims ride uninformed to the slaughter. Cambridge needs books like IV-F and the Handbook: but the Army's supply of hamburger will be cut off only when the lifesaving manuals also reach Chelsea. Roxbury, and other favorite manpower pools...