Word: typist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Typist. Bush, for example, is forced to teach medical students with equipment that is 20 to 40 years out of date. He could have received a grant to buy a new electron microscope, he said, but he could not get the money to remodel a room with soundproofing and wiring for the delicate instrument. Lesser irritations are also common. Owing to a shortage of secretaries and typewriters, Bush often had to type his own letters...
...hoots at him. "Go clean the lodger's boots!" And while her husband cleans the lodger's boots, she nibbles the lodger's ear. After several years of playing the cuckold, creepy little Crippen dares at last to play the man-with a pretty young typist (Samantha Eggar...
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...
Linasec works on unjustified tape made by a typist from the reporters' edited copy, and it justifies lines quickly until it comes to a word that must be hyphenated. Having no memory or logical rules to solve this problem, it stops and calls for help by flashing a light. A human operator comes to its rescue, takes a look at the word and presses a key that hyphenates it properly. Then Linasec races ahead until it meets another problem beyond the capacity of its simple brain. A single human operator can take care of several Linasecs, each of which...
...half empty. Autos zipped into town at 60 m.p.h.. buses glided smoothly, and Transport Minister Marples found the way clear when he bicycled to work. For the striking railwaymen who wanted to cause maximum discomfort, the whole thing proved a flop. For the public it was as one typist sighed, "a lovely, lovely strike...