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Ever aware of the necessity to make taxpaying as painless as possible,* the I.R.S. also announced a new timesaving device. Taxpayers need no longer make out their checks to "District Director of Internal Revenue." Suggests the bureau: just write "Internal Revenue Service," and save untold molecules of ink...
Whether characters who are full-fashioned in pen and ink can ever do as well in flesh and blood may well be doubted. But it is less the characters than the characteristics of comic-strip life that make for trouble on Broadway. Plainly the chopped-up repetitions, the churning status quo that go down fine a spoonful a day in a newspaper could sadly pall as an evening-long drink on the stage. On the stage, accordingly, Li'l Abner has been swamped with plot, which not only palls but plods. Also, by never letting anyone relax, the plot...
...brighter side, an awareness seems to be growing that Uruguay's economic troubles are mainly homemade. Citizens complain about the ineffectuality of the nine-man governing council, sign petitions for a return to the presidential system. Disappointment at the red-ink record of the government in business is widespread. Says Juan Antonio Acuna, head of Uruguay's No. 1 non-Communist labor federation: "We are terrified when the state considers nationalizing another industry...
...years ago a young medievalist named Robert-Henri Bautier found occasion to examine some of Genealogist Courtois' documents more closely. With government help, he turned microscopes and ultraviolet rays on the moldy old parchments, only to discover that the ink and the writing on them was of a date far later than the parchments themselves. Wanting to be sure, Bautier enlisted the aid of police, archivists and other scholars, and set out in search of further knowledge of Genealogist Courtois. Last week, in the silent, august chamber of L'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Scholar Bautier announced...
...process that makes it possible to bond labels to Cellophane, is more economical than printing. Called Therimage, the bonding process is based largely on an old device of "printing by transfer." A special heat-and-pressure machine is attached to standard packaging units, then labels made of gumlike inks are fed into it. The machine's heat releases the ink from the label, presses it firmly onto the Cellophane, in a process much like fixing a decal...