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...came from a high-speed computer that printed its answers with electrically charged pins instead of solid typeface. When he found that the blind could be taught to recognize vibrating patterns, he built the first model of his machine. Next, he and two other researchers at Stanford, James D. Meindl and James C. Bliss, made the probe sensitive to the differences in such similar-shaped letters as lower case a, e, and o, and also adjustable for various print sizes. The portable, battery-operated machine was then given to Candy for testing at home...
Then one night in Pasadena, Calif., a German immigrant waiter named Johann Meindl was watching television and heard an art restorer remark that there were many masterpieces hanging incognito on people's walls whose value not even their owners dreamed of. Meindl wondered whether the two pocket-sized paintings (one is 6¾ by 4⅝ in., the other 6¼ by 3⅝ in.) he had been given in 1946 by an old teacher of his in Munich, Fräulein Josephine Werkman, just before her death, might be worth something. He took them to the restorer...
...Example. In Munich, Germany, after a court ruled that his client was not slandered when called a "super-idiot," Lawyer Karl Meindl drew three months in jail and a 300-mark fine for contempt when he protested: "Does the Herr Judge hold it to be meaningless if I, on the basis of his decision, call him a 'super-idiot...
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