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Constant Hazard. The very word acronym is a neologism, which a Bell Laboratories researcher created in 1943 from the Greek akros (tip) and onyma (name). By 1960, when the Gale Research Company of Detroit published the first edition of what is now called Acronyms and Initialisms Dictionary (lumping wordlike acronyms with unpronounceable abbreviations) 12,000 of both were already on the loose. This summer's third edition will list more than 80,000. Nor is English the only language to be acronymized. The Library of Congress publishes a glossary of 23,600 Russian acronyms and abbreviations, ranging from...
...worst hazard is the acronym's tendency to create doubles. As soon as an acronym becomes common, it breeds a litter of identical children. When a man says that he works for AID, is he part of the Agency for International Development or Americans of Italian Descent? Perhaps he is a doctor concerned with Artificial Insemination by Donor, or a lexicographer employed by the Acronyms and Initialisms Dictionary, which now lists 18 different AIDs...
...have expected a friendly welcome at Princeton University last week. Environment, after all, has become the No. 1 issue on campus. Moreover, Hickel had prepared a speech that called for creation of "an environmental task force along the lines of the Peace Corps." It would be called ECO (an acronym for Environmental Control Organization), he said, and could start by conducting an exhaustive inventory of all publicly owned lands and making "recommendations for their highest use -whether it be recreational, or resource-producing, or just plain scenic...
...groups. Most seem politically right-wing, and they have even been called neo-fascist in some European countries. But their chief interest is in protesting violations of civil liberties. The Belgian student represented an organization called the Flemish Action Committee for Eastern Europe. Scandinavia's SMOG (a Russian acronym for Courage, Youth, Sincerity and Genius) sponsored October's GUM demonstration and the one in Leningrad last week. Both groups, and several others, are in touch with Rome's Movimento Europa Civilta, whose Eagle Scout approach to political regeneration includes weekend camping trips and karate practice...
CORRESPONDENTS who have been covering West Africa describe the chaotic conditions there with the acronym WAWA, meaning "West Africa Wins Again." To the newsmen scrambling to cover the sudden collapse of the breakaway state of Biafra, last week was WAWA and then some. At the moment of victory for Nigeria, the nearest TIME Correspondent was James Wilde, 1,000 miles away in Kinshasa, the Congo. He could just as well have been on the moon. Defeated by bureaucracy and the vagaries of travel in Africa, Wilde was forced to assess the situation on the basis of long experience...