Word: manual
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...addition to the four schools for Africans (a fifth, for Ethiopian children, is due to open soon), the island is dotted with boarding schools for 20,000 Cuban students; all these institutes combine an academic curriculum with manual labor and ideological training. Part of their educational program, says Roberto Ogando, a political leader on the island, is "to learn that as members of a controlled democracy they have an obligation to work -and if necessary even to fight-with their hands." In keeping with the Isle of Pines' conversion from an agricultural community (and prison colony) into a kind...
...that which is right and every person's right to interpret what is right"? Answer: the Universal Life Church, which was "born out of the vision of its Founder Kirby S. Hensley" in 1962. Universal Life is only one of 37 groups catalogued in a fascinating new manual entitled Religious Requirements and Practices. Its earnest notes on Hensley's "church" neglect to mention that it is the notorious ordination-by-mail mill that for the past decade has conferred a doctor of divinity degree upon virtually anyone who asks...
Both the solemnity of style and the curious lacunae are explained by the fact that the manual is published by the U.S. Army, which this month is dispatching copies to its 1,433 chaplains. Many sects were included because military commanders and chaplains had already asked headquarters for guidance about them...
...accused of being the stereotype of impersonal corporate power. But for the 1,800 folks of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, 25 miles off the coast of Los Angeles, Pacific Telephone had always been downright neighborly. Almost everybody recognizes by voice the 19 operators who handle Avalon's manual switchboard, which is the last such one in the Bell system. Not for long. Because of increasing hordes of summer tourists and hard-to-replace parts, Santa Catalina will join the computer age this week when its switchboard is replaced by a direct-dial system...
...disabled person is imply to ask if assistance is desired. We generally know our own needs and capacities better than anyone else and can indicate whether help is required and how it should be given. If you see a person with an ambulatory disability (e.g., using braces, crutches, a manual or motorized wheelchair) out on the street, it is very likely that he can fully take care of himself. When help is required to get up some stairs, open a door or reach an item in the dining hall, many of us prefer to ask for it rather than...