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...handwriting analysis should fail, the experts turn to tests of paper, ink and pens, such as those carried out by the West German Federal Archives last week. Here, too, experience and a keen eye for detail may prove sufficient to detect deceit. Benjamin notes that in the West parchment was used exclusively until about the year 1150. Next came two types of rag paper. One was laid paper, formed by being stretched across wires that left visible lines spaced about an inch apart. It was in common use until about 1800. The other was wove paper, in which the fibers...
Researchers at West Germany's Mannheim University have applied modern technology to detect minute variations in pressure applied to paper by writers. They are developing an electric grid microscope to measure precisely...
...largest dealer in Nazi mementos, spots one or two fakes a month among the thousands of Third Reich items he handles every year. Many are signed photos of Hitler, which, if genuine, are worth from $350 to $ 1,000 to collectors. Such photo forgeries are often simple to detect because Hitler rarely signed a picture unless it had been taken by his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, who stamped a distinctive seal on his photos...
There comes a moment in life, perhaps more than one, when it is possible to detect a subtle understanding, a mystifying clarity of awareness. More often than not it vanishes as quickly as it appears. But during it one senses the interconnectedness of things, the flow and pulse of the collective subconscious--what in another age was called the "quick" of life. A transcendent moment like this reveals the order or chaos behind life; it generally makes one feel inconsequential, a minute speck in the cosmic scheme. This essentially romantic notion was perhaps best delineated by Emerson in his famous...
Still, many items on the wish lists are hardly luxuries. Oregon City is asking for a new fire engine ($120,000), an air-operated rescue tool to help fire fighters pry open mangled or burning automobiles ($7,000), a hydrocarbon meter to detect the presence of explosive gases ($1,200) and a string of 40 new light poles for Main Street ($18,000 each). In its catalogue, Anaheim says it needs money even to equip centers for senior citizens and the handicapped. Reaching higher than most, the city of Reno asks for an entire $5 million community center. That item...