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...Medicare coverage in their old age. His tax cuts and federal budget deficit are a thinly veiled declaration of of war on these benefits for future generations of Americans. If this is something the average American is made aware of, I am sure Bush will lose big. Christian Winther Copenhagen, Denmark...
...comparison. To telex a document, a keyboard operator must retype it at a computer terminal before sending it to its destination. This can take an hour or more and cost about $5 for 50 words. With a fax, people can simply send a "picture" of the text. Says Mark Winther, an electronics analyst at Manhattan-based Link Resources: "The growth of fax is coming out of the hides of Federal Express and Western Union. Fax poses a serious threat to overnight express mail, and it could make telex obsolete...
Nearly 10,000 Danes had shelled out 4.50 kroner ($1) apiece for a 78-page, 3,000-word guide to U.S.A.-Slang. The lexicographers: Danish Newsmen Victor Skaarup and Kris Winther. To keep up to the minute and sometimes an hour or so ahead, Skaarup and Winther had listened to U.S. newscasts and radio comedians, swapped letters with Variety's Editor Abel Green and studied his slangy tradepaper of "show biz." (Said Green, washing his hands of some of their definitions: "They're talking smörgasbord slanguage...
According to Skaarup and Winther, a bobby-soxer is a flapper; ladies' undies are called twilights; a drizzle is a boy who always walks with the same girl; and when you say attaboy, you mean either bravo, get at it again, or a member of an air transport auxiliary corps. After consulting the dictionary, Danes would have no trouble following the English dialogue of such Hollywood hits as Himlen kan vente (Heaven Can Wait), might tackle the best-selling Der gror et Trae i Brooklyn in the original...
Ready to marry were Bob Feller, chief specialist in the Navy, and Virginia Winther, a clerk at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Chicago...