Word: manual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject sex has rarely been approached with thicker rubber gloves and longer forceps than in your article. Nearest to it might be the Boy Scout manual of 1936 (page...
...bovver no one will help you." Admits one: "I don't say any of us are nice guys. We want to be 'tasty'-y'know, big guys." Most if not all the skinheads are working-class boys from 15 to 18, stuck in low-paying manual-labor jobs and reflecting the crudest prejudices of their blue-collar parents. Few have read a book or been in a church. "All I did in school," recalls one, "is kick the teacher...
Riot Guns. The police, taken unawares and unprepared, took their response from a page of the riot manual of the early '60s. First they underreacted, allowing the march to become a mob and the mob to become milling looters. When firebombing began, they arrived in force with riot guns and tear gas. Sniper fire was reported-though not a single officer or even a police vehicle can show a scratch-and the official shooting...
...cells. Whenever one of the hehostats (each of which is made 180 individual mirrors) loses its lock on the sun, these tiny electric eyes inform a minicomputer, which in turn controls a pair of hydraulic pumps that can rotate and tilt the heliostat into th proper position. Only one manual ad justment is needed to operate the heliostats. It is made at the end of the day, when they must be reset to face the position of the next day's sunrise...
Suttler's book, which is probably the closest thing to a how-to-escape-the-draft manual that can be legally published, does not stammer about its purpose. As Suttler says in the Introduction...