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...arms control. Preachers, professors and pundits have forced his attention. James Watt insulted the Beach Boys and was squelched by Nancy Reagan. When it appeared the President was forgetting about those suffocating $200 billion deficits, a memo from Budgetman David Stockman was leaked pleading for action lest the red ink extend...
...installments from the black leather-bound diaries, which date from June 1932, seven months before Hitler became Germany's Chancellor, to mid-April 1945, just two weeks before his death and the fall of the Third Reich. Each volume contains from 75 to 100 pages, written in black ink, many bearing Hitler's signature at the bottom. Upon completion, each diary was wrapped with a thin red cord and sealed with a red wax imprint of the swastika...
According to the London Times, chemical analyses of the paper and ink were then conducted. Wrote Trevor-Roper, the author and editor of several books on Hitler: "When I had entered the back room in the Swiss bank and turned the pages of those volumes, my doubts gradually dissolved. I am now satisfied they are authentic." Trevor-Roper says that notes pasted on many of the diaries' covers state that they were the personal property of the Führer and that in the event of his death, they were to be given to Julius Schaub, his longtime adjutant...
...School last fall to begin fourth grade, I was incredulous that I had to learn italic writing. Thanks to your article, I now know why we practice this so endlessly. I am now doing fairly well, but on the first day I couldn't even get the ink to flow from...
Modern italic can be written with any instrument from a simple crayon to a 24-karat gold fountain pen (if it will write). But it looks best when written with a broad-edged pen. If the nib is crisp and the ink flow and paper are just right, italic writing gives its practitioners an almost sensuous pleasure...