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...half-dozen first-raters in this country. In his native Marseilles he learned most of his art from his mother and father, both able violinists, and could play classical concertos before he learned to read music at eight. Says he: "You do not have to know the alphabet to speak well sometimes...
...President Lawson Stone, who said he knew nothing about the deal, demanded that the buyer identify himself. He got no more information. New York's Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein got into the act: he had a clue. The figures 625, he said, if ticked off on the alphabet, read FEE. That corresponded to the Follansbee ticker symbol: FEE. The Securities & Exchange Commission and the New York Stock Exchange were also looking into the deal...
...Second for Santa Claus-second what? Remember? He had eight reindeer. Personally I prefer an auto. There! You have my profession and my name. Now I'm going to have a cracker while you count up 13 and 7 in the alphabet...
...obstacle for the non-sectarian group. Such was the case with the Mazetaco Indians, citizens of Mexico in the Isthmus of Yucatan. Researchers financed through voluntary contributions to the society spent years living among these people to analyze their speech phonetically. Once the language is reduced to the Roman alphabet, the natives must be taught painstakingly to read it. New languages expressing the Logos of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John for the first time last year embraced eleven of the "Amerindian" aggregation--Malisect, Potawatomic, and Menominee among the more obscure...
...said Zacharias, now has atom bombs 50 times more powerful than those that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But there are other weapons in the new alphabet of destruction: 1) bacteriological bombs containing either botulinus toxin or psittacosis virus; 2) a U.S. -developed biological spray that "can wipe out all forms of life in a large city"; 3) some sort of military application of cosmic rays which is now, he thought, being developed by Russian scientists...