Word: self-help
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...Force Base at Sacramento tune in while on alert status. Today, thousands of American commuters, determined to put the down time of driving to better use, are discovering the pleasures of loud literature: books transcribed on cassette tapes. A widening range of fiction, poetry, history, biography, language courses and self-help texts is now available for the expressway bibliophile with a tape deck. In enlightened circles (and cloverleafs), the numbing AM-FM parade of screaming newsbreaks, "easy listening" and top-ten programming is being replaced with Chaucer and Cheever, Tennyson and Updike. Many freeway jockeys, as well as joggers, cooks...
...students are working through Harvard's "self-help" plan-a combined loan-job financial aid package which may not exceed $2600 a year for freshmen, or $3200 a year for upperclassmen. If the students work into the second semester they will exceed this limit, Martha Homer, director of the student employment office, said yesterday...
...students using the NDSL-500 of 1600 in the self-help program--may contine to work only if they use their in-come to repay their loan. But because most students prefer to pay back their loans after graduation, they will leave their jobs instead, Elizabeth Hicks, director of financial aid for freshmen, said yesterday...
...ahead at the office, more than a few career-conscious men have turned to their "old boy networks" of friends and schoolmates. Working women are now discovering that they can do something similar. In Minneapolis, some 2,400 career women belong to a self-help job-counseling group that is pointedly named All the Good Old Girls. For membership dues ranging between $5 and $100 annually, Minneapolis' Good Old Girls and hundreds of similar networks throughout the U.S. provide members with contacts among other working women, as well as seminars on topics like speechwriting, managerial techniques and job stress...
Calling for a return to a self-help society...