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...this case, W.A.S.P. becomes the author's unwitting acronym for Wholesale, Angry, Sensationalized Paranoia...
...state-owned publishing houses. The more courageous writers have been smuggling their works out to the West, or publishing them in a growing number of crudely printed journals that circulate sub rosa and have an avid readership. Young Leningrad and Moscow writers organized a semisecret association called SMOG (an acronym for youth, courage, image and depth). They not only contribute to such clandestine publications as Phoenix, Sphinx, Kolokol (Bell) and Tetradi (Notebooks), but have secretly published whole works, among them Alexander Urusov's tale of labor camp horrors entitled "The Cry of Far Away Ants." These underground publications also...
Behind this recent tale of international crime and punishment was the simple fact that the Geneva teller had just read a counterfeiting advisory put out by the International Criminal Police Organization-Interpol. The glamorous acronym invokes images of SMERSH-smashing undercover men from U.N.C.L.E. but the glamour is a myth. Interpol never makes a pinch; it is merely the information broker that helps the world's police to help one another. The catch sounds small (some 2,000 arrests last year), but the effect is large. Interpol's prey is the big-time international crook-the jet-borne...
...biggest employer in Rochester, N.Y. (pop. 300,000), Kodak has been under fire for months from a militant civil rights organization headed by Florence and bearing the acrimonious acronym FIGHT (for Freedom, Integration, God, Honor-Today). Founded after the city's Negro riots in 1964, FIGHT soon insisted that it be allowed to recruit 600 Negroes for training and employment by Kodak. Amid mounting pressure, a Kodak assistant vice president designated to hold talks with FIGHT signed a document last Dec. 20, bowing to its demands. No sooner was that agreement reached, however, than Kodak repudiated it as "unauthorized...
...might call it PAUSE-for Perplexed and Uncommitted State Executives, said Oregon's Governor Tom McCall, chuckling over his own acronym. Whatever he called it, McCall's proposed society of Republican Governors was intended as a device to keep the party's options open on next year's presidential nominees...