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...they love to take Soc. Sci. 2, for it combines sociology and history into a rigorous but functional how-to manual. There the girls who address envelopes for the Young Democrats meet the boys who aspire to the Senate, and on rainy days the girls look more rained on than in other classes...
...appropriately slim, trim, red-white-and-blue booklet issued in 1958 by the Royal Canadian Air Force, consisting of two exercise systems known as "5BX" (Five Basic Exercises) for men and "XBX" (Ten Basic Exercises) for women. First offered to the public about three years ago, the manual has been a snowballing bestseller that has so far sold 650,000 copies in the U.S. (600,000 in Canada, 130,000 in Australia and New Zealand...
Love and Larceny. "The fool banks in the crook's pocket." The old Italian proverb is wittily illustrated in this new Italian film: a merry little con manual that might serve equally for the instruction of rogues and the sophistication of innocents abroad. Educative excerpts...
...Malinger." In World War I, Jews had to fight off a crude stereotype of themselves as shirkers. Said one U.S. Army manual: "The foreign-born, and especially Jews, are more apt to malinger than the native-born." The league protested to the White House, and President Wilson ordered the manual destroyed...
Back in the years when most Americans were manual workers, they needed lots of fat for muscle fuel. So farmers encouraged their hogs to get as obese as circus fat ladies. But times have changed. Most modern Americans make little muscular effort, and hog fat is high on the list of dietary enemies. Farmers feed their hogs carefully to keep them from producing too much lard, fat back and sowbelly...