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Thank you DB! Your sleuthing is much appreciated! It was so frustrating yesterday to see all the comments yesterday - on FR and in the press - saying that the Selectric was needed for proportional spacing and the th superscript could never be done on a Selectric.

Actually the opposite is true! You could get a special symbol ball for the Selectric. If you used a superscript or greek symbol a lot you could get a special ball with that symbol. You would have to change the ball to get the symbol and that was a pain in the earlier models. The later balls were somewhat easier to change.

On the Selectric.org site the operator was saying he couldn't find a ball with a "th" symbol on it.

Also, being a typewriter, I don't think whatever symbol is being printed can extend very much above the top of line due to the mechanics of a typewriter. The superscript on the documents in question are significantly higher than the top of line. Without rolling the paper down half a line I don't think you can do it. And what typist would do that?

On a computer, that's standard output.