Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...degree of prosperity that it has never known before. Early each morning, several thousand men assemble near the marketplace and pile on to scores of buses and trucks that take them to work in Israel. There they earn up to $17 a day in construction work and other manual-labor jobs-four or five times what they used to make in the citrus groves. So prized are the skilled Arab hands that some Jewish foremen in the nearby Israeli town of Kfar Saba pick them up in taxis to take them to work...
...Russo, a Los Angeles architect who drives a 1964 MGB, agrees. "I've learned all I know about cars here at the center," he says. "I got a manual, read it, and started doing a little bit at a time." As his confidence grew, he went into more complex tasks, such as rebuilding his engine. Says Russo: "The mystery of mechanics isn't so mysterious any more." Working near by on his wife's old Buick, Law Student Ernest Burger remarks: "I'm actually acting out a childhood fantasy." Many people have always itched to play...
...said "Superfly," one of a recent group of "black exploitation" films is the first audio-visual manual on how to use cocaine. Unofficial sources, he said, report that the use of cocaine has increased substantially in ghettos since the release of the movie...
Initially, the objective is to attract live crowds as proof of track's commercial appeal. To please fans, the I.T.A.'s eleven-page operations manual frankly encourages troupe members to ham it up: "Wave during introductions, smile, turn to all sides of the arena and acknowledge the applause. Many U.S. athletes act glum as if they are about to be shot in the next minute." Matson, the world record holder (71 ft. 5½ in.) in the shotput, but a rather colorless performer, recognizes the problem. "If everyone was like me," he says, "nobody would come...
...Chief Donald Johnson, a World War II infantry sergeant and past national commander of the American Legion, claims that the proposed changes are intended to create administrative efficiencies and bring benefits into line with realities. He argues, for example, that new prosthetics and the decreasing importance of jobs in manual labor have made amputations less of a disability-hence the lower payments proposed for physically handicapped veterans. The cuts, says Johnson, "just reflect our ability to spend prudently and wisely...