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TIME'S alphabet (partial) of last week's news...
...Xamed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration public-relations man who served in the Army 16 years ago. forgot that the first two letters of the military spoken alphabet have been changed to -'Alpha" and "Bravo." The impersonal names were chosen to ameliorate the wrath of professional animal lovers, but Monkey Baker, a furry, cuddlesome item, also picked up the unofficial laboratory nickname of TLC (for Tender Loving Care). Monkey Able was born in Kansas, a fact that NASA hopes will still a few cries in India, where her relatives are hardly less sacred than cows...
Making a Profit. Physically, both papers resemble U.S. newspaper establishments, down to the electric-lighted news streamer, flowing endlessly in the Cyrillic alphabet, along the top of Izvestia's façade. Their newsmen earn surprisingly good salaries: a junior reporter on Pravda 's local 120-man staff gets 1,500 rubles ($375) a month base pay, plus an average of $250 more in space rates. Besides this
Barzun invites all "genuine intellectuals" to take arms against the "liberal" teachers'-college products who have "a special language, a flatulent Newspeak, which combines self-righteousness with permanent fog . . ." In a sonorous exhortation, Author Barzun invites readers to remember that spelling and adding-the alphabet and mathematics-are the foundations of all learning and reason, and that the U.S. shakes them at its peril...
...consonants in the Hawaiian alphabet are h, k, 1, m, n, p, w. They are pronounced as they are in English. The vowels are pronounced a as in ah, e as in long a, i as in long e, o as in oh, and u as in oo. Aloha...