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...Alphabet Soup Again...
...week trooped some 6,000 athletes and officials of 67 nations,* parading around the rain-soaked, brick-red track past the presidential box and the stands packed with 70,000 applauding spectators. In its traditional position, the Greek team led the parade. Behind it, in order of the Finnish alphabet, marched the others: India's athletes, in light green and white flannels and gay turbans; the Russians, men in cream-colored flannels, women in bright blue blazers; the 368-member U.S. team: and the Finns, bringing up the rear as Olympic hosts. Then out of a stadium tunnel loped...
...books and written knowledge. "How can I arrange to see?" Louis wrote in his clumsy fashion one day. "How is it possible for me to read that which has been set down by the seeing?" Louis decided that the blind could never master a rapid reading of the ordinary alphabet. They needed-"a device that has nothing to do with the eyes...
...clue for that device came from a strange source: an army captain had invented a system of dot-and-dash symbols which could be punched out on thick paper and read by touch at night. When Braille heard about it, he got the idea of inventing an alphabet code of his own. The result was the Braille system, based on various arrangements of from one to six dots...
...Juliett The pronouncing alphabet worked out by the armed services of the U.S., Britain & Canada in World War II gave many a foreign pilot cause to stutter and stammer. Last week the International Civil Aviation Organization, which sets stand ard international radio procedures around the world, brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec...