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...Moscow last week, the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva published an interim look at the work of the State Spelling Commission, which is preparing a new report on language reform to be issued next year. The major drive will be against useless double letters in Russian words; thus kommunist will become komunist, appetit, apetit, and so on. Of 1,200 Russian words containing double letters, only twelve will be retained. Among them: Russia and other proper names. The soft sign following sibilants at the end of words will disappear, as did the hard sign following consonants, and 16 rules of hyphenation...
...output of a hidden bug. The best defense is a thorough, periodic search by an electronic exterminator. Otherwise, anyone who suspects he is being bugged should talk in low tones and keep a radio or TV squawking loudly. One spy fiction dodge, turning on the shower, is useless since the "white sound" of falling water can be electronically filtered out from human voices...
...combination of military failure and political instability makes it increasingly difficult for the United States to pursue a constructive policy in South Vietnam. It is difficult to urge social reform when most of the country is in the hands of the guerrillas. It is useless to plan military strategy when the morale of government troops is so low that they will not pursue an enemy who is beaten in the field...
...time when Justice Department antitrust lawyers accuse him of being someplace else in a price-fixing conspiracy. Leahy's teams shy from letting corporate committees decide what should be thrown out. "In committee," says Founder Emmett Leahy, 53, "a company can always come up with reasons why useless papers should be retained...
...taxpayer! Who else? As his numbers decrease, his load increases. With so many of our people living off him -local, state and federal governments, their employees, service personnel, defense project employees, armed services, and useless navy yard personnel-who could object...