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...took some 10,000 workers about 36 hours to complete the count, at a cost of $600,000. But by the time of the November elections, Orange County had installed something called the Coleman Vote Tally System. The voter still marks a paper ballot, but uses a special fluorescent ink. He drops the ballot into a box, which is later taken by officials to a central counting place, where its contents are fed into a computer that announces the results within moments. A control experiment was conducted with the help of a county grand jury, which was handed a quantity...
...Moving clockwise, millions of kilowatts of electricity were coursing through the vast network of cables to meet the early-evening needs of the Western Hemisphere's most heavily populated, most power-dependent region. In the humming central control room of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, ink pens tracing the flow of power suddenly shuddered. At the Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. on the other side of Lake Ontario, the dials on a wall lurched out of control...
...same time Scripto, one of the few manufacturers of writing instruments that make both their own ink and all the component parts for their pens, is profiting from the unexpected sales resurgence of an old company standby, the mechanical pencil...
...fast-growing market for fiber-tipped pens, now dominated by Japanese imports, Scripto has just introduced a Dacron-tipped version called Scriptip, which it hopes will out strip its competitors by providing a greater ink supply and a finer, longer-lasting nib at a lower price (39? v. 49? for most others...
...Central Intelligence Agency had a Revolutionary War ancestor called the Culper Ring. America's first espionage agents-a whaler, a tavern keeper, a Quaker merchant, Schoolmaster Nathan Hale-were very ingenuous spies. The members referred to each other by numbers, wrote their messages to General Washington in disappearing ink called Sympathetic Stain, and were totally hangdog about their calling. "I've lived four years of my life in fear," one of them is supposed to have said, "and I'll live the rest of it in shame." Author Corey Ford, who is best known as a humorist...