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To: Travis McGee
"Read the bolded, and tell me if it's within the bounds of reality that this procedure was performed on this arcane machine for a memorandum in the ANG in 1972. Occam's Razor screams FORGERY! The forger didn't take the proportional spacing into account when he ginned up this fake on his PC."

Correct. The IBM Executive required a trained clerk to type the memo TWICE to get the proportional font...hardly something that a Lt. Col. is going to do on his own (there are no clerk's initials on the bottom of the memos) for a memo so informal that it didn't even merit TANG letterhead or a CC list.

Moreover, I have yet to see an IBM font from that era that had the small sized superscript "th" character(s). Some clerks knew to roll the page half a line down to get the "th" above the 111 or 147, but getting the "th" to be a small "th" is a different thing entirely with technology from that era.

2 Full Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires

255 posted on 09/09/2004 9:49:48 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
Yep. Occam's Razor is screaming out FORGERY! I can't wait to hear Dan Rather's "correction."

(As if he ever will.)

264 posted on 09/09/2004 9:52:18 AM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: Southack
The IBM Executive required a trained clerk to type the memo TWICE to get the proportional font...

This simply isn't true. Proportional is different from justified. The documents are not justified.

And the "th" is a non-issue.

426 posted on 09/09/2004 11:02:35 AM PDT by js1138 (Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
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