LA Times notes 2011, Feb 7th

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LA Times notes, 2011, Feb 7th.

JEFF: Bezos of Amazon
    Founder, president, CEO of Amazon
SDS: '60s militant gp
    Students for a Democratic Society
        1962-1969

TAPPAN: New Yok's Tappan Zee Bridge
    Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge, over the Hudson river.
    Tappan = American tribe of the region,
    Zee = dutch for sea

IRAE: "Dies Irae": hymn
    Possibly written by Thomas Celano
    Used in some Christian rites.

TASS: Soviet news source
    Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union
    Founded 1925.
ONEA: Draft classification
    1-a: unrestricted
    1-a-o: concientious objector
    1-c: enlisted
    ...
MOI: "Dites-Moi": "South Pacific" song
SHATI: Lamb Chop creator Lewis
    Died 1998.  Ventriloquist, puppeteer.
FRITO: Corn chip
PEROT: '90s candidate Ross

OTTO: Maestro Klemperer
    German, 1885-1973
OPRY: Grand Ole Opry, world's longest live radio program, country music.
NOOR: American-born Jordanian queen
PIK: Commercial suffix with water

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