Word: alphabetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...develop new antisubmarine defense systems. When Thach finished talking, Arleigh Burke grinned. "Jimmy Thach," he said, "has just made an unfortunate speech. He doesn't know this, but he has talked himself into a job." The job: commander of Task Group Alfa ("A" in the communications phonetic alphabet), created as a Navy floating laboratory for antisubmarine warfare...
...Alphabet Soup. NORAD, under the command of Four-Star Air Force General Earle Partridge, is a joint U.S.-Canadian venture (Partridge's second in command is Canada's Air Marshal C. Roy Slemon) with Air Force, Army and Navy each marked out for specific assignments, e.g., the Navy for seagoing radar pickets, the Air Force for intercepting enemy bombers with aircraft and surface-to-air area defense missiles, the Army for point defense of U.S. cities and bases with its Nike system. To work at all, NORAD must function with electronic precision and supersonic speed. But in practice...
...reverently as The Method. It consists chiefly of one precept: under no circumstances is anything but the language under study spoken in class. A corollary: for the first few lessons, all instruction is verbal-otherwise, Charles Berlitz explains, students tend to transpose pronunciation values in languages sharing the same alphabet...
...short haul, Ataturk converted Turkey into a facsimile of a parliamentary republic, fought an unending battle to break the influence of the Moslem clergy. Under his tireless prodding, Turks found themselves obeying not Islamic law but the Swiss Civil Code, writing not in Arabic script but a new Romanized alphabet, wearing not the fez but a strange Western headgear the name of which, Ataturk felt obliged to explain...
...fond dream of Playwright George Bernard Shaw, popular adoption of a king-size phonetic alphabet, is finally to get some development and promotion. Though G.B.S. left a tidy sum to his proposed ''alphabet trust," institutional beneficiaries under his will fought against relinquishing a farthing to further Shaw's idea (TIME, March 4); even his old friend Lady Astor dismissed it as "ridiculous." Last week's compromise in court: the public trustee of Shaw's estate announced that a maximum of $23,240 will be set aside for the project. A first prize...