Word: fountain-pen
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...here in the cheap seats, it rarely happens that way. Who, after all, can pinpoint the precise moment when love begins? For most of us, love builds subtly over time, on a foundation of shared laughs, intimate moments and, often, love letters. And not necessarily swooping fountain-pen declarations of adoration either. More likely it's a few words scratched out on a Post-it, a postcard or a While You Were...
...receipt with anything but a ball-point, sometimes engraved with the manager's son's little league team slogan, squeezed between well-manicured fingernails? In German class, I saw the ball-point ratio skyrocket. Even the Europeans, whom I had always romanticized as the last bastion of the noble fountain-pen glory, were filling in blanks on vocabulary sheets with the sliding ink of Bic pens--the kind you can buy in 20-packs at CVS. These plastic wonders are a good ol' standby, always there to jot down messages for your roommate on a Post-it or, more importantly...
...many papers which ordinarily would have used their own reporters to cover the story--the Globe and Newsday, for instance--instead ran AP's version of it. The AP story made it seem that the Reagan Administration was doing something beneficial for college students not born with a silver fountain-pen in their breastpocket...
...ballooned bad-check losses in the U.S. to an estimated $1 billion a year. But bum-check pushers may shortly find their livelihood threatened by automation. In Los Angeles, a pair of science-minded entrepreneurs are using a digital computer to blot out what J. Edgar Hoover calls "fountain-pen bandits...
...million in ten years. In two years at Waterman, he has stepped up product research, modernized the manufacturing plant and revamped the sales organization. He brought out a sapphire-point pen and last week introduced the Waterman C/F, a nib-point pen that is filled with a cartridge, like a ball point; Howse says it "will put growth back into the fountain-pen business." Howse succeeds Frank D. Waterman, 50, a grandnephew of the founder, who becomes board chairman...