Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Increasing use of Widener has meant breakdowns in the circulation department's present manual filing system that couldn't be solved, according to Paul H. Buck, director of the University Library, even by doubling the number of young women who do the routine work...
Hurlbut, an authority on the crystalline structure of minerals, is the author of Minerals and How to Study Them and Manual of Mineralogy...
...eagerly accepted a challenge to meet his opponent. Union Nationale Leader Daniel Johnson, in a Kennedy-Nixon style TV debate. Just to be on the safe side, three Lesage aides flew to Washington to find out if there were any tricks left out of the Kennedy manual. They returned with four helpful Kennedy-staff TV hints: Do not shave before 5 p.m., eat only a light supper, bask six minutes under a sun lamp, wear no makeup. In his no-minute pre-election debate, Lesage gave the urbane, polished performance of a man who knew precisely where he was going...
...mention of his exwife, Mary Todhunter Clark, was already deleted from the official history of the state's executive mansion. Now New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 54, blue-penciled the 21-word last paragraph from his official biography in the revised edition of the Legislative Manual and New York Red Book, thereby eliminating all reference to the fact that he was ever married, had five children, and is a grandfather eight times over...