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...confess is better than not to confess" (a Lo phrase) became a handbook slogan for party workers. In cities like Shanghai (pop. 7,000,000), the terrorists made sure that people would know about "the way of death" by staging machine gun executions on the paddyfields, and sending through the streets open wagons bearing people bound hand and foot. Then one spring night in 1951 the sirens wailed in Shanghai, and all night long the police wagons sped about the city. Next morning there was nothing in the newspapers to indicate what had happened, but as people began checking with...
...here shows. The facts about Harvard scholarships and aid are available, but capable secondary school counsellors are needed, to put the facts before the student. All too many students pick unwisely or not at all, and finish their education at Fort Sill. The only existing guide is the College Handbook, containing much purple prose but little information. The student wants to know what the college is really like, not what the college wishes to do to society and humanity...
...Bernard Cohen '31, head of the Eliot House library committee, agreed with these views and added as an example that if each of the eight House libraries and Radcliffe were to get the Handbook of Chemistry annually, $108 would be spent on a title that would be out of date in a year...
...Reporting on its recess work, the Internal Security Subcommittee last week issued A Handbook for Americans on how the Communist conspiracy works in the U.S. The committee's estimate of the number of Communists...
...M.I.T. observed that the crisis is not a matter of numbers alone. "There are many areas of technology," said he, "that are now closed books to those engineers lacking creative powers or to those whose training or analytical abilities never carried them beyond the superficial methods of handbook engineering . . . Employers are not just looking for 'bodies' with degrees . . . [They] are pressing the colleges for men with a more fundamental, integrated education in science, engineering and the humanities . . . [They] want men . . . with the power to deal with the technologies of tomorrow and not of yesterday...