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...said that only governments seem to cause wars; wars do not come from people. Now, whether he read that letter or not, I don't know, and will never have any way of knowing. After quite a long delay, the answer that came to me was not handwritten, nor was it personal. It was the usual rhetoric that is publicly exchanged between our two countries...
...more intriguing were the insights into the events that led to Bishop's ouster and assassination. According to a series of mostly handwritten minutes of the Central Committee meetings of Grenada's New Jewel Movement that took place after July, Bishop proposed that the party take a more moderate stance toward the West. The idea was rejected. Warned one unidentified participant: "If the revolution is turned back now, it has regional and international implications...
...formula, either man must first use a secret key to open a strongbox that contains a combination. Then they use the combination to open a vault at the Louisville headquarters that holds a fireproof safe. After opening the safe, they face a strongbox with another combination lock. The handwritten recipe is inside the box. In one final attempt to thwart thievery, the combination to the last lock is concealed in an executive's memory...
...Kampf. Careless forgers occasionally fail to research the relationship between Hitler and the alleged recipients of the books, thus committing detectable errors like using inappropriately flowery language. For the forgers, potential rewards are high. A genuinely inscribed two-volume first edition of Mein Kampf sells for $10,000. A handwritten letter from Hitler to a top Nazi leader can fetch as much...
...than others. For young children, pencil and paper can present Sisyphean problems: by the time some youngsters have formed the letters, they have lost track of what they wanted to say. Moreover, extensive revision, the key to good writing, is sometimes hard to squeeze on a sheet of paper, handwritten or typed. It is a rare and unpopular teacher who requires any but the most superficial rewriting, since changing sentences may mean recopying a whole page...