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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even F.D.R.'s New Deal (WPA, PWA, NRA, etc., etc.) managed to cook up such a rich alphabet soup. Government agencies, politicians, labor unions, all 22 states and 13 political parties are known by their initials. BAA, BLA, BAP, BAM and BUM are prominent banks. MIC is the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, while MEC is the Ministry of Education and Culture, and MAC is a political action group called the Movimento Anticomunista. For slum clearance there is nothing quite so efficient as MUD (Democratic Urbanization Movement). And tax evaders must constantly watch out for the dread SFPRICFN, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Snafu | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

TOYS BY ARTISTS-Parsons, 24 West 57th. A grab bag from Santa's other helpers: a black-coiffed, sad-eyed Marisol Doll by Marisol; a block-toy chess set by George Ortman; William King's Pop guns; Lanny Powers' alphabet blocks, in which M stands for Marilyn Monroe. Among the playful creative elves: Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Calder, Richard Lindner, Richard Anuszkiewicz. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Jan. 3, 1964 | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...smattering of Spanish or Portuguese. The institute man then points to a hut, tree, rabbit, or other familiar object and asks the Indian the word for it. As he learns the Indian dialect, the linguist records the sounds on tape. Then, using basic phonetic symbols, he constructs an alphabet for the language. The process can be exasperating. One tribe of suspicious Bolivian Indians refused to cooperate, convinced that the whole thing was a plot to steal their language. When linguists tackled the Cocama tribe in Peru, they found that the men spoke one language, the women another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Apostle of the Alphabet | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...syndicate a show, but wherever it is seen it achieves a local flavor impossible on a network. In each Romper Room city, the teacher has half a dozen local five-year-olds on the air with her every day, replacing three each week. They learn the alphabet, balance baskets on their heads, shove sand around with toy bulldozers, flack for their own drawings, and learn key facts of nature, such as, say, a whale can get a sunburn and peel. It is a school, not vaudeville, to be sure, but it is a pretty good show nonetheless. Teachers crawl under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The World's Largest Kindergarten | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...listener," his fingers resting on a duplicate keyboard, feels each key or combination of keys vibrate in response to the speaker's signals. According to the telephone's U.S.-born inventor, Aeronautical Engineer Joseph Hirsch, it is a simple matter to put the letters of the alphabet and actual words into an easily understood code of vibrations. Hirsch began perfecting his phone while working on mechanical vibration problems in U.S. Navy missiles, and he is sure the technique can be put to wider use for remote control of dangerous crop-dusting planes, and in military communication systems, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Jobs for the Jiggle | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

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