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To: LindyBill who wrote (69031)	9/10/2004 7:04:25 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793781

InstaPundit - JUST WATCHED DAN RATHER ON CBS: The thing that struck me most was his voice -- as in the CNN interview linked below, he sounded as nervous and uncomfortable as any news anchor I've heard. Compared to the voluminous material about these documents on the Internet and in the Washington Post and on ABC, his story didn't offer much. And nothing about the widow and the son, who dispute the authenticity of the story: They say that writing memos like this would have been out of character for Killian; Rather instead produced an author of anti-Bush books who said it was in character, but ignored the comments of people much closer to the facts. All told, it was consistent with Power Line's prediction. UPDATE: Somebody is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can replicate the CBS documents on a typewriter.

To: LindyBill who wrote (69031)	9/10/2004 8:50:10 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793781

My old mentor says the IBM Composer available then did not kern. He may still have his, he's a packrat. I just left a message on his voice mail, will try him back in an hour. It most definitely did center, but not "auto center." Like the Varitype, to justify you had to type each line twice. The machine would justify - in this case, center - when you typed the same like a second time. You would set the various elements of type in pieces, wax the back of the paper, and position the pieces on a heavy sheet of paper with a pale blue grid, and that would be "shot" by a huge litho camera, and the film used to make litho plates. I set type, did layout and pasteup, shot camera, assembled the film and made plates 1975-1983. I know pre-press like riding a bicycle or driving a car. You never forget. I dream about it regularly. Frustration dreams, trying to get a publication ready for the press before the press crew needs it.