Actually, I'm rather impressed with the candor and logic expressed in three of the posts. I didn't think they had it in them.
I happen to know a bit about the 1970's vintage selectric as I owned one. My dad's thesis in mathematical statistics was typed on it. I typed my papers in college on it. I'm pretty familar with the whole type/font thing on them since I had lots of different symbol balls needed to type all the various complex mathematical expressions. This wasn't typed on an early 1970's Selectric. The DUers have reason to be worried.
Someone is desperate.
Special Report on it NOW
Did you or your Dad own an IBM Executive? If so, did you have to type the sentence twice, as I've heard, to get it to font space proportionally?