Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 500 defects, and spare parts that were more than 50% defective. On Mercury's six manned flights, there was an average of ten equipment malfunctions-any one of which might have resulted in fatal failures. Only emergency backup systems and the skill of the astronauts in manual control saved the missions...
...used to think the danger was real. Then they realized that ditchdiggers seldom make the obit pages, and they decided to take a more careful statistical look at executives to see how the bosses fared. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., with battalions of executives and divisions of manual workers, was an ideal place for the study...
...A.M.A. Journal, Du Pont Statistician Sidney Pell and Physician C. Anthony D'Alonzo report that presidents, vice presidents and plant managers have an annual heart-attack rate of only 2.2 per 1,000 while the manual workers' rate is 3.2 Du Pont's clerical workers have a rate of 4.0 per 1,000. Among those listed as clerical workers, evidently, are many who have failed of promotion to executive status and are suffering the stress of frustration...
...Kama Sutra (Hindu Art of Love) is to ancient India as Courses of Instruction for Harvard and Radcliffe is to modern Cambridge. With ecstasy on Tuesday and Thursday (and Saturday) in mind, the CRIMSON omphaloskeptic undertakes to reveal the secrets of the second 190 pages of the 1963-64 manual of truth and beauty...
...Army classics which have enjoyed a wide circulation are FM 21-13, Department of the Army Field Manual: The Soldier's Guide, and The Combat Leader's Field Guide. The reader should not be put off by the austerity of their titles, for each of these books is a masterpiece of the field manual genre, written in a distinctive style...