Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particularly lively correspondence with owners of lemons-new cars in which everything seems to go wrong. Now he and two associates, Lawyer Lowell Dodge and Engineer Ralf Hotchkiss, have drawn heavily on those letters to write a book, What to do with your bad car / An action manual for lemon owners. The book, which came out last week, is every bit as tart as the title implies...
...been reading the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine since the fourth grade, had attended football games played by my brother Phillip, had heard of my father's kicking a field goal which helped Dartmouth beat Princeton in 1929. With all of this lore behind me, I studied the freshman manual, learned all of the Dartmouth songs before I arrived on campus, never went out those first few months without my freshman cap (which meant that during freshman week I carried a lot of furniture for upperclassmen) and got myself royally drunk (i.e., in Dartmouth fashion, to the point of unconsciousness) before...
...more naive paranoids-and found themselves with the '70's first box-office smash. It is Peter Boyle's image of a gun-toting psychopath that has replaced Ralph Kramden as a symbol of the "lower depths" for the upper and middle classes. There hasn't been a decent manual laborer since, not even in Five Easy Pieces, which made the only repressed figure an ex-concert pianist. Even Brando's heroic dockworker from On the Waterfront would be a welcome addition to current filmgoer; though the enemy in that film was a crooked union (read in Kazan's anti...
...used to be that General Vo Nguyen Giap's guerrilla manual was the main source of the U.S. military's woes in Viet Nam. Now the brass is worrying about the U.S. Army Regulations as well. With the help of U.S. civilian lawyers, a few G.I.s in Viet Nam have seized on a little-known passage in the "Army regs" section on conscientious objectors and tried to use it as a legal way out of combat...
...demonstrated congressional intent to help President Johnson pursue it. But after sifting a number of cases, including the events and trials relating to Song My, Taylor concludes, that the U.S. seems to be committing war crimes that violate legal precedents established by the Geneva Conventions and the 1956 Army Manual. Taylor's concern is mainly My Lai-like incidents, the killing of prisoners and destruction of villages suspected of harboring Viet Cong...