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...with students. He calls textbooks "mere dry husks of facts," insists that youngsters grapple firsthand with the issues and ideas of history. To convey "the human meaning-how people thought and suffered.'' Scott supplies documents that only scholars normally see. All it takes, he says, is a Mimeograph machine, the instrument "that gives back a student's heritage." As Scott sees it ("Historians have to take a stand"), much of the heritage revolves around colonial history, the Constitution and slavery, all of which he probes deeply. His students do not just vaguely read that Lincoln and Douglas...
...contempt. "They've done nothing but make noise." jeers Wilbur Hamilton, the city Republican chairman. Says William Austin ("Aus") Meehan. who last year inherited his father's role as boss of the old organization: "I don't think you can run a political organization with a Mimeograph machine and advertising." As Meehan and Hamilton see it. the art of politics is based on what they call "service"'-doing favors for people so as to build up a fund of obligation and gratitude that will be useful on election day. Says Hamilton: "We perform every conceivable kind...
High Price. Washington has moved to remedy in part the lack of communications in the Vietnamese villages. Twentythree villages are already equipped with mimeograph machines, enabling trained Vietnamese editors to produce daily news papers with stories supplied by short wave radio. More than 100 mobile film units tour the country showing short subjects ranging from how-to-do-it films on health and agriculture to hard-hitting ex poses on the Viet Cong. The U.S. State Department, which helps with the scenarios, estimates that the films were seen by 17 million people last year...
...they grazed through college together, acquired town houses that matched and wives who did not, how together they entered the hurly-burly of New York reform politics. They run for Congress-Duggan as campaign manager and Avery, of course, as candidate. As Duggan churns out press releases from a mimeograph machine in a rented hotel ballroom, .his beautiful wife is entering a suite in the same hotel to cheer Avery, who has twisted his neck severely by throwing back his head in a Rooseveltian campaign laugh. Duggan bitterly re-creates the scene: the pink, passive hero, the innocent back...
...meeting, the Council decided to open its mimeograph facilities to all approved College organizations for a fee of one dollar per stencil...