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...disclosure that last year's harvest of bread grains was a huge 151.5 million tons compared with 1963's mere 107.5 million. The rustic Khrushchev would have ballyhooed news like that from the golden onion domes. The quiet men of the new regime buried it in a handbook of Soviet statistics that simply appeared-six months later-in Moscow book stores. But if the style in Moscow is different, the substance largely is not. With less flair but more efficiency and cautious consistency, the new masters of Moscow have continued Khrushchev's interdependent program of coexistence abroad...
Democracy is not a formula but a living process, not an ideology but a hope about the nature of man. Hence it cannot be applied from a handbook or manifesto to different peoples. It must work for the free-swinging Latin who instinctively distrusts authority and, at the other end of the emotional scale, for the passive Asian who instinctively obeys authority-or ignores...
...Hanol is senseless. In fact the Viet cong, be they from North or South are trained in and supplied from the North. More important, the war in South Viet Nam is carefully controlled from Hanol; every attack is carefully detailed according to the instructions of Mao Tse-Tung's handbook on guerilla warfare. The Viet Cong have paid much closer attention to their handbook than their Viot Minh counterparts in the days of war against the French; in particular there have been no set piece battles except Binh Gia and peasant indoctrination has been much more sophisticated. In the contrast...
...them trivial, 20 or more persons were dispatched at once, and vast festive crowds turned out for the "hanging days" at Tyburn. In recent years, a steady campaign against the death penalty has been fought by lawyers and authors, including Barrister Charles Duff, who dedicated his devastating, sardonic Handbook on Hanging to "The Hangmen of England and Similar Constitutional Bulwarks Everywhere...
...read all about it in Crowell's Handbook of Classical Literature," said Mars, knocking over Jove's nectar in his excitement. Just look yourself up.--And you might try reading those articles on Tragedy and Comedy, man. Very good for something that concise...