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Finding one book would be too easy. My goal was to find three pieces of literature in the stacks in 30 minutes: one book, one pamphlet and one magazine. The topics, chosen at random, would be snails, Buddha and George Washington. Before I could hunt down my targets, I had to locate them using the HOLLIS computer terminals, which involved deciphering a series of encrypted codes derived from five ancient languages. To find a magazine article on snails, the following steps were necessary...
Using approximately the same number of steps and occasionally enlisting the help ofthe man next to me, I also found that F. Pavlenkov wrote a book on Buddha, located on the fourth floor at BL72.P38. I993X.RX-7. The Massachusetts George Washington Bicentennial Commission wrote pamphlet number three on George, also located on the floor...
Back in 1960, though, Kennedy and Nixon were scorned as the plastic products of professional packaging, exemplars of what one journalist labeled "the Smooth Deal," so much alike that Democratic partisan Arthur Schlesinger Jr. rushed into print a pamphlet titled Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference...
...national organization publishes a pamphlet which includes statistics--including that claim that since its founding in 1961 Amnesty International has worked on behalf of more than 43,000 prisoner cases of which 40,000 are now closed. But Sewall says those numbers did not satisfy...
President Clinton's school uniform pamphlet simply changes the bandage on the wound; it does nothing to kill the virus. To suggest that altering a person's outer appearance will bring about inner renewal is an insult to the severity of the task at hand. Attitudes must be changed from the inside; this transformation will require more commitment than school uniforms. We must convince people that education will bring economic power. And we must prove it by awarding jobs to qualified individuals. For urban America to harbor hope, it must see examples of success. Keynote speaker Bayh endorsed tougher truancy...