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...less than a billionth of a second, their very existence inferred from the erratic tracks they left in bubble and cloud chambers. Some left no tracks at all. The list proliferated to the sound of Greek letters-eta, rho, omega, lambda, sigma, xi-until it seemed that the alphabet might...
...even know what a letter of the alphabet was. Now I can defend myself." So said Felicinda de Lozada, a 36-year-old Caracas housewife for whom a proud new world was opening up last week. Illiterate a year ago, Felicinda enrolled in one of the adult night schools that Venezuela's government has organized in her slum barrio. She now looks forward to a complete primary-school education, and then intends to get a job to help support her family...
...state farms, as in Russia. The No. i Communist, Tsedenbal, heads both the government and the party, as Khrushchev does in Moscow. Ulan Bator has a mausoleum, containing Sukhe Bator's remains, similar to the Lenin tomb in the Soviet capital. In 1946, Mongols adopted the Russian Cyrillic alphabet; their army is Russian trained and equipped. A Mongol guide explained, "Everything new here is Russian...
...four delights, tiny enough for a child to hide away and keep. All the stories are both written and illustrated by Sendak, who is the Picasso of children's books, and each of them has a function: one teaches counting, another the alphabet, a third offers a strong moral (you should care), and the fourth praises the wonders of chicken soup with rice...
Inventor Read stoutly asserts that "earnest practice for a single week enables one to write with assurance if not with speed." But Read, now 74, took more than 15 years to work the alphabet out, with the help of some correspondence with Shaw before the old man died. In the new book's last note, Read closes with a good old-fashioned "good luck!" If he had really the courage of his convictions, he would simply have said...