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...more than a year one small, daily newspaper on Boston's South Shore has used in its regular operations one of the most revolutionary innovations in the printing business in the past 75 years. The Quincy Patriot Ledger, with a circulation of 44,000, is the paper. The innovation is Photon--a process for setting type photographically, rather than through the use of any hot metal casting system...
...present the Ledger has only two Photon machines, but it is so satisfied with their performance in composing the editorial page and some advertising lay-outs that it is already planning to replace all its conventional hot metal type-casting machines, generally known by the trade name of Linotype, with Photon machines...
...bright side of the budget ledger is the continuing rise in revenues. In August, when budget planners predicted a $1.7 billion deficit, the figures were based on Government income of $62.1 billion. But the forecast underestimated the growth of the U.S. business boom. The increase in personal income is expected to push personal income tax receipts from $32.8 billion to $33.2 billion. Furthermore, corporate profits are expected to run well over the estimate of $40.6 billion, may hit $43.5 billion by year's end. Additional tax revenue: $1.5 billion. Altogether, the Treasury's income from all sources...
Turning from the financial to the psychological ledger, the book suggests one conclusion: the funeral ethic of 20th century America makes the most serious attempt in history to blink the ultimate fact. With its primped remains and imitation-grass-carpeted graves, it sets out to pull death's sting and all too often removes its significance, too. In "modern mortuary method," the funeral sermon is frequently nothing more than God's commercial, grooved in, as the authors explain, to "expedite the mourning process," and grief is classified as a "problem of bereavement." Instead of eternal life, the customer...
...though suicide "is not thought the ticket in the best circles." In December 1894, at 44, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. His mother was present, and it is her account of the death that Editor Neider presents. There is nothing more from Fanny. The spell was broken, the ledger book was closed, and there was nothing left but to sell Vailima and eventually return to the States. Twenty years later she died, and her ashes were carried back to Samoa...