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FOOTNOTE: *In dictating to his secretary, Grace Tully, the short speech in which he would ask Congress to declare war against Japan, Roosevelt originally said, "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in world history, the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked." Reviewing the typescript, Roosevelt crossed out "world history" with his pen and wrote "infamy...
...Just scratch it out. Want to add a phrase? Just draw a little caret under the insertion point and start writing. Capitalizing on 30 years of research in handwriting recognition, the system can identify carefully printed letters, numbers and punctuation marks and turn them into clean, crisp computer-readable typescript...
...November 1969 Strobe Talbott, then working on his thesis at Oxford, was summoned by TIME's Moscow bureau chief, Jerrold Schecter, for whom Talbott had worked as an intern the previous summer, and handed a pile of Russian typescript to translate. "After reading several pages," says Talbott, now editor at large, "I knew that I had in my hands one of the most fascinating and unusual documents ever to emerge from the Soviet Union." The papers, published in 1970 as the book Khrushchev Remembers, were transcripts of tapes recorded by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in forced retirement...
...again, Rushdie cannot go home. His north London house, guarded around the clock by uniformed police, is empty. His fourth-floor study, where he wrote The Satanic Verses at the rate of roughly 800 words a day, no longer betrays the traces of his working routine, mounting piles of typescript scattered about the floor. But on a mantelpiece in this room rests an intriguing souvenir of Rushdie's past: a beautifully bound octagonal miniature, roughly the size of a silver dollar, of the Koran...
...cancer last week. The book was an early expression of the developing racial anguish in South Africa and has become an international classic. Earlier this year, had asked him to write an essay about South Africa today. Two days after | his death, Paton's widow Anne forwarded the incomplete typescript with a note: "I am very sorry he never finished it, but it was almost done, and during the last few days before he went into the hospital he was just too tired. In any case he could not bring his mind to bear on it because of his illness...