Word: typescripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merged Tapes. At the Los Angeles Times, reporters now write their stories on electric typewriters that simultaneously produce ordinary typescript and paper tapes that carry the same words in a code of perforations. When the edited copy is ready to be set in metal type, a typist reads it and makes a second perforated tape that tells in code how each line has been changed. The two tapes are run through a "merging" machine that produces a corrected tape. Under a slightly different system, a clean typescript and a correctly perforated tape are made in one operation-after the story...
...weakness: last spring a third of Radcliffe wanted social rules that would keep them from sinning: this fall it is CRIMSON editors who, presumably having spent too many hours working for the CRIMSON instead of researching their theses, want a rule that will keep them from throwing in the typescript...
...spirits are so buoyant that they earn the reader's indulgence. His posturings are taken as overdrafts on respect well repaid by later books, and so is his blatant mimicry of such authors as Lawrence, Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Henry Miller (to whom Durrell sent the only typescript of the book with the coy instruction to read it and throw it in the Seine...