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Subtle Brainwashing. The letters began-arriving about a month ago. They are on a variety of types of paper, mostly written in longhand, a few typewritten. The North Koreans send them by diplomatic pouch to Communist embassies in Western Europe, where they are then airmailed to the U.S. Some have been postmarked...
...heavy combat in his 50s in World War II as a Marine officer. Disturbed that the Viet Nam debate was dominated by "extremists on both sides," he began writing friends last summer, incorporated the committee on July 31, and helped to draft a policy statement that was edited in longhand by Eisenhower...
...consternation was understandable. The papers contained facts and figures about one of the best-kept business secrets in years. The project was even given code names-Operation Thunderbolt and Big Deal-to preserve secrecy. During ten tense months of negotiation, the executives involved scratched out details in longhand so that not even confidential secretaries would know what was going on. Last week the secret was out-and it stunned the railroad industry, Wall Street and even Washington. Tuohy's C. & O. and the Norfolk & Western Railway announced that they planned not only to merge with each other...
...Hale County, Ala., last week local registrars started using the state's new, simplified literacy test, which requires applicants to copy the state constitution in longhand and answer questions from this copy. Officials flunked 54 out of 93 Negro applicants...
...usually the case, DeBakey is in a jam between journeys to far cities or foreign lands, he spends the dawn hours writing scientific papers in longhand. He finds that the time it takes to write makes him use words with the precision that is so precious to him. If he has a day or two to spare before a speech or manuscript is due, DeBakey dictates to a tape recorder and later revises the typed draft. His professional bibliography now numbers no fewer than 619 scientific reports...