Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense, it is absurd to find Communists today fighting each other-and the rest of the world-over a tomb, with a mass of dated polemics used both as sacred writ and a manual of strategy. But unlike monarchists, Reds cannot find legitimacy in a family tree or by divine right. Unlike democrats, they do not draw their mandate from the people they rule. Communist legitimacy, such as it is, derives from the writings of Karl Marx and from the words and deeds of Lenin, the first man to apply Marxism to a living nation...
...with just about every luxury option Detroit has, from automatic transmission to a big V-8 to air conditioning. Finally, the sports-car purist who wants performance and more horsepower can spend up to $3,500 by adding a European-style stiff suspension, disk brakes and a fourspeed manual transmission. Next year Ford will also add a fastback model to the line...
Lewis, Children of Sanchez RCAF Manual...
Some of the winners: Stanley Vanderbeek, 32, is a tireless man with scissors. He cuts pictures out of magazines-all kinds of magazines-and stirs them into film clips in a kind of stiff puppet action that writes a curious chapter in the manual of animation. In Skulduggery, Harry Truman comes popping out of the mouth of a sumptuous girl; then a hammer comes out of her nose and knocks Harry back between her chops. Breath-Death shows Harpo Marx playing his harp on the edge of a smoking battlefield. Khrushchev appears, sneezes, and Hitler pops up and says Gesundheit...
...spent in the first year to find and train 40,000 boys, aged 16-21, who are illiterate, or too unskilled or ill-motivated to adapt to normal job training. The less competent half would go to rural camps for up to two years, learn the disciplines of manual labor on conservation projects, study rudimentary reading, writing, arithmetic and speech. The top half would be sent to unused military reservations for training in specific vocational skills and basic academic subjects. All would get a $30-$50 monthly living allowance and a separation payment of $50 for each month of satisfactory...