Word: manual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world of books, the Army has shown itself to be the leader among the armed services. Unlike the more excitable Air Force, which once published a manual accusing large blocs of Protestant ministers of Communist leanings, the Army encourages solid literary achievement. Air Force pamphleteers, like the Grace Metaliouses of the civilian sphere, may enjoy a brief notoriety. But Army books are more likely to end up on the shelves of serious collectors...
...Rear Admiral George G. Burkley, 60, who took over the job from Dr. Janet G. Travell of rocking chair fame. First official notice of Burkley's new title as White House Physician came last week with the publication of the latest edition of the U.S. Government Organization Manual. Dr. Travell, whose name appeared in the manual last year, is not listed this time, but still remains on the White House payroll as consultant...
Island of Love is a big-time operator's manual on how to turn a drowsy little Greek island into the Catskills of the charter-flight set. Con Man Robert Preston and his pal Tony Randall seed the waters around the island with phony erotic antiques to revive a legend that the place used to be an old Aegean orgy ground. With the innocent help of Georgia Moll, the trick works, and soon the island is swinging with so many foreign tourists in native costume that it resembles United Nations Day at a free-love camp. Everybody is holding...
Even the titles are different. The modern manual eschews Slope's love and Van de Velde's ideal and bears down hard on guilt. WHO is TO BLAME FOR SEXUAL UNHAPPINESS IN MARRIAGE? probes the headline of a full-page ad for a book called The Sexually Happy Wife. Duty rather than pleasure keynotes a volume by Writer Maxine Davis: Sexual Responsibility in Marriage...
...stayed several months, working, he said, for the National Institute of Agrarian Reform. He met Che Guevara and came home bubbling about that "first-class hero." His apartment, a friend recalls, was littered with Cuban maps, flags, and a prominently displayed copy of Che Guevara's guerrilla warfare manual...