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Withro's other blunder over the summer was the poor production of the HarBus franchise of the Student Handbook put out for first-year students. Besides being three weeks late and thereby antagonizing advertisers, the Handbook was printed up very sloppily. The most apparent error is a hole punched on the front cover which no one has been able to explain, not to mention the pages which were photographed lopsided and the smeared and misshapen corners of the photographic plates. To make matters worse for Withro, he had billed the HarBus for the number of hours he worked...
...Human? The course provides basic training in how to study behavior. One popular text is a reprint of Professor DeVore's field notes on baboons, which gives students a thorough look at what he observed and how he arrived at his conclusions. Another is "The Observer's Handbook," a series of charts that the child uses to study human conflict, play and teaching-learning. In studying conflict, for example, the class quietly watches kindergarten children for half an hour, observing how fights start, how they end and how they can be prevented...
Evidently, the Journal is to serve as a manifesto and handbook for potential women liberators. Its opening editorial tells, step-by-step, what action a woman must take to liberate herself. Among these steps are: meet regularly with a group of women for education and support: learn judo or karate; don't get married or have babies; live completely alone if possible or in a female commune), and finally, don't wear cosmetics or sexy clothes...
...frequently have little experience in government. California's Kay Valory, consumer counsel to Governor Ronald Reagan, has not testified in three years before any committee considering consumer legislation. She recently made the extraordinary recommendation that buyers shun the "very narrow" testing reports of Consumers Union in favor of the handbook of the National Association of Manufacturers...
...factor of ten") and Stalking the Wild Asparagus, Euell Gibbons' foraging guide to edible wild plants. There are "pop enlightenment" texts on yoga, sense relaxation, self-hypnosis and psycho-cybernetics. Among the catalogue's biggest sellers is The Survival Book by Nesbitt, Pond and Allen -"an excellent handbook for Air Force pilots downed in remote regions...