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...council's civil defense pamphlet, which states the case for nuclear disarmament, is now in a second edition, with 10,000 more free copies ready for distribution. About 30,000 of the pamphlets were circulated throughout the city during the summer...
...chemicals their workers are exposed to on the job, made drug firms spell out the possible risks of each medicine they sell, and now plans to cancel a regulation that would compel hotdog makers to note if their products contain ground bone. The Car Book, a popular 68-page pamphlet that lists the safety features and maintenance costs of 81 U.S. and foreign automobiles, is not being reprinted even though it is one of the most successful publications ever offered by the Government (1.5 million copies distributed in one year). The book had been compiled each year by the National...
There can be little doubt that the Oedipal stirrings of many American patriots contributed to their willingness to revolt. The four men Shaw portrays were hardly unique in their view of the king as a father. Images of England as an unjust parent appear repeatedly in the pamphlet literature of the period, and influential works like John Dickinson's "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" rely heavily on the America-as-wronged-child motif. Such metaphors served to remind Americans, in easily acessible terms, of the harshness of the British rejection. As Dickinson wrote. "The parent company...drew to herself...
...some of the victories were less than complete. Lost in parliamentary procedure during its December meeting, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life did not approve the placement of an informational pamphlet on homosexuality in second semester registration packets. It did, however, authorize the introduction of a second packet, which eventually contained the GSA's brochure...
...German expressionists do good. PM says look at the facts--"beverage prices in deposit states are higher than in neighboring non-deposit states." Environmental fanatics draw birdshot compared with the artillery reserved for the health nuts who have suggested that smoking might somehow be tied to cancer. As a pamphlet available to plant visitors insists, no one has ever been able to do more than show that smokers are more likely to die from lung cancer, a mere "statistical association." They have failed utterly "to establish a cause-and-effect relationship." The pamphlet features a series of questions. For example...