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Columnist Buckshot Putting aside his bone-handled .45 one day last week, Sheriff Tom Will ("Buckshot") Lane of Wharton County, Tex. reached for a typewriter and a Mimeograph stencil. Then he began to compose his weekly letter to the editor, reporting on law & order in the Lone Star state. In his last installment, Buckshot had told how he was on the track of sewing machines stolen from Wharton County high schools. "Dear Ed," wrote Buckshot. "Thursday afternoon [we] made a drag [of Fort Worth stores] . . . The manager was on the phone when we walked in and he turned pale...
...workings of the machine are fairly shuple. A stencil is placed over the test paper which covers all spaces except those where correct answers are supposed to be marked. Both the test paper and the stencil are then placed in a slot up against a panel of thick copper pins. When the machine is turned on, the pins pick up all pencil marks that show through the spaces in the stencil, because pencil marks made with special pencils, conduct electricity. The rest is simple. The machine just "counts" the number of electrical impulses and then stamps it on the exam...
...nose of a 5-inch shell. Part of the secret is the dwarfish tubes, no bigger than lima beans. Part is the system of "wiring." Instead of the conventional radio's bulky tangle of wires, designers used lines of silver-bearing ink, printed accurately through a stencil on a small ceramic plate. The "resistors" are printed too, in carbon ink. The condensers are paper-thin discs of ceramics, silver-coated on both sides and stuck on the plate. Even the coils can be printed: they are nothing but spirals of delicate silver lines...
...stencil that fits over fingernails for quicker, neater nail tinting...
Sailors on a trim, haze-grey U.S. destroyer cheered as two seamen pulled away the stencil to show off a new decoration on the side of a forward gun turret. It was the white silhouette of a medium "Tiger" German tank, official recognition that their ship had destroyed one of the enemy tanks which gave Major General Terry Allen's "Fighting First" Division a rough time during the initial hours at Gela...