Word: manual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administrators were already planning to do. In other cases, adult agitators fanned disturbances. Philadelphia police charged the local leaders of CORE and the Black People's Unity Movement, a small group promoting "black pride," with inciting the riot there. Parents of Negro students at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High sought the help of Ron Karenga, leader of the black separatist "Us" organization, in trying to dump a white principal. Soon adults were picketing the school. A rumor of police brutality spread when one demonstrator was arrested, and then students went on a rampage. In the end, the principal...
...company changes material for each of its four weekend shows, so no particular performance can be predicted. Among the winners in its repertoire to date are a parody of Leonard Bernstein's condescending "Young People's Concerts," a wedding-night sex manual reading (sex is always funny), and an interview with Chancellor Kiesinger on the remnants of Nazism in Germany...
...advertising with warnings. In a current ad with one page of type, less than a quarter is devoted to recommending the drug, more than three-quarters to warnings about how not to use it. With every package goes a leaflet carrying the same warnings. They are reprinted in the manual that doctors keep on their desks. Last week Parke, Davis spokesmen added that their representatives urge doctors to report any adverse reactions in patients taking Chloromycetin. They point out that some such reactions are associated with any potent drug, and they believe that the choice of medication should be left...
...dealing with unknown ciphers is measured by these four things in the order named: perseverance, careful methods of analysis, intuition, luck. The ability at least to read the language of the original text is very desirable but not essential." Such is the opening sentence of Parker Hitt's Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers...
...Federal Grand Jury that indicted Dr. Benjamin Spock last month got him on the wrong conspiracy. "Conspiracy to encourage young men to violate the Selective Service Act?" Big deal. The real conspiracy involves his book--Baby and Child Care--the paperback manual that helped bring up nearly every one of today's young radicals and anti-war agitators...