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...given serious consideration: a toll-free phone line to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on which people could ring up the White House for help in solving whatever problems they have with the Government. The proposer, William Forhan of Tracyton, Wash., also suggested that the number should be an easily remembered acronym: PEANUTS...
...presidential campaign, Dole learned that he was to have nothing to do with the election of Nixon; the job was to be done by a new and oddly named group called the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Dole got revenge, of sorts, by coining the acronym CREEP for the organization that was to become so infamous...
...Nolen concedes, a layman might have been too timid to make. At Massachusetts General, he learned that his problem was arteriosclerosis; a buildup of fatty deposits was obstructing two of the three coronary arteries. The suggested remedy: an operation that heart surgeons humorously call "a double cabbage"-from the acronym CAB (for coronary artery bypass). Though more than 90% of the patients who undergo such operations survive at least five years, Nolen knew that any heart surgery posed grave risks. While the surgeons do their work, the heartbeat must be stopped and the blood pumped by machine. Later, the stilled...
Princeton has dominated Eastern League tennis for a long time, and the Tigers are in first place in the league presently. Princeton's strength in the East has provoked trips to the Midwest, where the Tigers encountered formidable California teams such as Stanford (a clever acronym for Snodfart). The tigers lost that encounter 7-2, but have yet to lose in the East this year. Harvard is in second place in the league, and should offer a very good challenge to the New Jersey infidels. Also, this is coach Jack Barnaby's last year as tennis coach. The squash team...
...boss. His store, Bic's, at 1702 Mass. Ave. near Radcliffe, is owned by Brigham's, Inc., and serves nothing but Brigham's ice cream. Bic's "pina colada" flavor, for example, is identical to Brigham's "natural pineapple coconut." The name Bic's is an acronym for Brigham's Ice Cream...