Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman of 38, whom he met at a friend's house last November. They will be married "soon," said Musante, but the exact time and place is secret. What his new occupation will be, Musante does not yet. know. "In case of need, I would not hesitate at manual labor...
Monday he want to work. He changed tires. His hands were long and thin boned and they were growing beautiful with the manual work. He envisioned them grasping the quick marble thighs of girls passing down the street. That's where I live, he thought. I live in visions. Each time he actually confronted a new girl he tangled with her mind and initiate no communion with her body. He preferred to explain concepts of the totality and resurrective powers of love, but there was a hole in the middle of his talk. The whole consisted of their talking bodies...
...date. At an antiseptically bleak Army induction center, a potential draftee (James Coco) appears for his physical examination. He is fortyish, fat, balding, and obviously the victim of some computer error. Nonetheless, his examiner (Elaine Shore), a squat female sergeant of stony mien and rigid devotion to the Army manual, proceeds with the examination. In a sequence of mounting hilarity, the thoroughly discomfited Coco is forced to strip down. The apex of comic modesty is reached when Coco tries to avoid total exposure by draping himself in the American flag...
Valachi's career coincides with the rise of the Cosa Nostra itself and reads like a kind of how-to-succeed manual for middle-echelon mobsters. At 18, Valachi was already a veteran "wheelman" (getaway driver), but he made the mistake of joining an "Irish gang." That move so displeased the Italian underworld that while Valachi was serving time for theft, he received as chastisement a knife wound that ran under his heart and around to his back, requiring 38 stitches...
...battlefield in Viet Nam and at the peace talks in Paris, the counsel of U.S. intelligence analysts weighs heavily. For it is as true today as it was around 400 B.C., when Sun Tzu wrote China's oldest manual of arms, that those whose trade is to uncover an enemy's secrets "receive their instructions within the tent of the general and are intimate and close to him." Yet when Richard Nixon becomes Commander in Chief, he will need an extraordinary measure of sagacity, wisdom, humanity and justice-not to mention delicacy and subtlety-to discern the truth...