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...EDGE OF THE ALPHABET (303 pp.)-Janet Frame-Braziller...
...first issue of a series has no letter after the date. Each time the signatures on the bill change, however, a letter of the alphabet is added after the year. Thus the second issue of Series 1935 was Series 1935A. Since no major change in currency design was adopted until the 1955 legislation, the 1935 pattern carried all the way through Series 1936F which bore the signatures of Ivy Baker Priest and Robert B. Anderson...
...English is taught via French at Manhattan's Ecole Française (enrollment: 224), a private grade school that believes in early language learning and reading-by-phonics. French, being more phonetic, is easier to learn first. Kindergartners start by handling Montessori method alphabet cards with "tactile" sandpaper letters, soon form words and start reading and writing in French. Apparently they have no trouble switching to English in first grade: "We just add the sounds," says the headmistress, Mrs. Eric Correa. Now the kids are doing arithmetic in French as well as English...
...anti-Administration "aye"; it had seesawed to a 13-13 tie by the time the clerk reached Douglas of Illinois. Two-thirds of the way down the list the Administration led, 37 to 31, but still ahead was the "murderers' row" of conservatives at the end of the alphabet...
During a simulated countdown, the instructor, watching the trainee crew from behind the broad glass pane of a control room, punches his troublemaking buttons and watches the countdown as the crew takes corrective action and snaps out comments and orders in bizarre alphabet-soup missile talk: PDU pressure low. Valve L14 in open position. Get a MOCAM team out here ASAP...