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...carriage does not move, nor do the keys extend into levers that make the impression on paper. Instead, the Selectric has mounted inside its case a spherical-shaped, pingpong-ball-sized metal typing element bearing all the familiar 88 alphabetical characters, numerals and punctuation symbols. When the typist strikes the keyboard, the typewriter's motor rapidly tilts and rotates the element on its axis as it moves across the paper, bringing the proper character into position for printing. The element is then rocked against ribbon and paper to print the character. This is essentially the same principle used...
Though Hitler seemed to cover his subjects thoroughly in Mein Kampf, it appeared last week that he wrote a second book. Hitlers Zweites Buck (Hitler's Second Book) was dictated to a sloppy typist in 1928, but never published. At the time, the Nazi Party and publishing house were ailing, and as the years went by, Hitler's second thoughts made publication of the second book seem inadvisable...
...Marta Santa Cruz, 22, was discovered by two teenagers. Marta had apparently been raped, then strangled. Her hands and feet were bound, and flesh scrapings found under her fingernails indicated a desperate struggle with her attacker. Daughter of a retired Bolivian army colonel. Marta worked as a clerk-typist at the Washington, D.C. Hospital Center, was a frequent guest at parties given by Bolivia's Ambassador Victor Andrade. ¶ In North Buffalo. N.Y.. frightened parents confiscated their children's bikes, Bible-class attendance dwindled, and one cautious housewife locked all three doors to her house, kept...
Divorced. Sheppard King III, 35, the Texas playboy who turned Moslem to marry his second wife, an Egyptian belly dancer; by Third Wife Mona Johnson King, 38, a former U.S. Government typist; after five years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...
...followers about 40 miles from Manhattan to a 130-acre farm near the heavily Jewish village of Spring Valley. Here they planned a Hasidic haven of five-room cottages and laid out streets named for Presidents of the U.S. They intended to name the community New Skvir, but a typist's error Americanized it to New Square...