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...page booklet entitled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare is a primer on insurgency, a how-to book in the struggle for hearts and minds. Some of the "techniques of persuasion" are benign: helping the peasants harvest crops, learn to read, improve hygiene. Others are decidedly brutal: assassination, kidnaping, blackmail, mob violence...
...FEDERAL government has made a notable addition to its long list of information booklets and how-to pamphlets on everyday living from buying a used car to fixing your toilet. Now, if you are the ambitious type, someone who has always dreamed of becoming a new Castro or Pinochet, well, the government has something...
Move over, Lisa Birnbach. Here comes a Dudley House junior with a how-to combat acne book that publishers think will match sales of The Preppy Hand-book...
...rooms as a public nuisance. But the ghetto-born dance fad, with its twirls, windmills and head spins, has shown remarkable staying power. As a result, dozens of entrepreneurs are making a fast break to cash in on its widespread popularity among teenagers by spinning off such accessories as clothing, how-to books and video games...
...article "How Does This #%0@! Thing Work?" [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, June 18] is long overdue. I have watched the quality of instruction books deteriorate for years. The root cause is that manufacturers are cheap. The almost universal flaw in how-to guides is a poor index. When our range top turned into a fireworks display, I checked the mail-order catalogue to see what it would cost to replace the unit. There was nothing in the catalogue index under "cookstoves" or "stoves, cook." In earlier years, catalogues had every conceivable synonymous entry...