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Last week Pravda for the first time published all the top leaders' names in alphabetical order. Malenkov's no longer led; he was down in the M's with Molotov. Defense Minister Bulganin came first. Malenkov might resent being in the middle, but could take consolation in the fact that in the Russian alphabet, the English KH is written as X, making his chief rival, Khrushchev, last on the list...
...often insulted our students and ourselves by presenting lectures which the most naive young instructor on our staff could give without any preparation . . . We cannot feel happy about spending our money to bring a distinguished guest one hundred or three thousand miles to hear him recite the alphabet...
This produces a combination of inferiority and disinterest among the Middlebury men. Many consider themselves beneath the women, beyond hope of interesting them, and so they don't even try. Girls and boys sit in separate clusters in the classrooms unless seats are assigned according to the alphabet. Except for a small rush when new movies come to town, boys and girls go stag...
...curious switch from the alphabet days of the New Deal, official Washington has lately taken to talking in numbers. For the past two weeks, the big number has been "six-oh-eight." It belongs to a section of the federal housing law that has set off a series of bitter charges, inquiries and firings in recent weeks...
...keep the lexicon manageable, Teachers Wright and Hofford have included only words with five letters or less, and though many are of foreign origin (e.g., baht, the monetary unit of Siam; alif, the first letter of the Arabian alphabet), most are eminently usable in the U.S. Botanists and biologists may already know about corms (short, bulblike stems) and wekas (flightless New Zealand wading birds...