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...name rhymed with phone/ But he felt slightly forlorn/ When called Thane, Stone or Thorn/ Thus, the 'Congressional Pronunciation Guide' was born." The fractured versifier is Republican Representative Charles Thone of Nebraska, who has just issued a third edition of his phonetic congressional directory. The six-page booklet was first suggested to Thone by a Nebraska radio announcer who was troubled by the frequent mispronunciation of political names over the air. Thone sent a questionnaire to every member of Congress, followed up with phone calls, and in 1971 issued his first pronunciation guide. Louisiana Congressman F. Edward...
Much of this calendar esoterica can be found in Chase's Calendar of Annual Events, an oddball almanac that lists 2,300 days and events around the world. Published by William Chase, 52, of Flint, Mich., the 68-page booklet includes celebrations like Whoop-Up Days in Alberta, Canada, the Bratwurst Festival in Bucyrus, Ohio, or the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts in Singapore...
Sabino Rodriguez III '75, one of the ACSR's student members, said this week he thinks the ACSR should consider publishing a booklet describing all its decisions on proxy resolutions and send it to all the corporations in which Harvard owns stock...
...letter in Thursday's Crimson (Oct. 24), Peter Ferrara claims that the figure of $10.90 I cite as the median daily earnings of a full-time farmworker includes only base pay and not piece work. This is simply not true. The figure comes from the Department of Agriculture's booklet, "The Hired Farm Working Force of 1970," which Mr. Ferrara will find in the Business School library. It includes base pay, piece work, and all other forms of cash payment, and is an average only over the days the worker can find employment. The same publication also shows that fully...
...addition to its recruitment programs, Raza hopes to publish a booklet for Chicanos interested in Harvard, Garcia said yesterday...