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...civil rights group puzzles the U.S. press more than S.N.C.C. (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee), the young militants who go by the acronym "Snick." While some commentators applaud Snick's success in helping Southern Negroes on a grass-roots level, others fret that Snick is being infiltrated by extremists and Communists. In this month's Commentary, Novelist Robert Penn Warren digs deeper into Snick than anyone to date. In probing interviews, Warren draws out two leading Snickers (as they are called by Southern cops), who give some surprising-and reassuring-reasons for belonging to Snick...
...cartoonist, poking fun at the Soviet propensity for stealing the inventions of other nations, once created a Russian inventor named Regus Patoff, an acronym for the omnipresent "Reg. U.S. Pat. Off." Last week, after decades of pirating others' ideas without so much as a thank you, the Russians joined the Paris Convention of 1883, the pact under which 67 nations agree to honor one another's patents and trademarks. In the future the Russians will have to pay the same licensing fees as everyone else when they cast a covetous eye on a new product or process...
...front-line television criticism in the U.S. is written by men like Lawrence Laurent of the Washington Post and Jack Gould of the New York Times. For children, the ultimate word on what should or should not be seen comes from an organization known -in what may be the acronym of the century-as NAFBRAT...
...enchanted paint pots. Their color is alive with serpentine swirls, and beneath the agitated surface can be glimpsed figures festooned like confetti-draped masqueraders. Not French, though living in Paris, and not American, for all the superficial resemblances to U.S. abstract expressionism, the artists are known by the acronym COBRA, derived from the first letters of the capital cities of their birth: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam (see color...
...years later, Townes's answer to that question won him half the Nobel Prize in physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences called his achievement a triumph of "quantum electronics," which was another way of saying that Townes's work had pointed the way toward masers (an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). The other half of the $53,000 payoff went...