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To: unclewest who wrote (55567)	9/12/2004 11:28:32 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Not a different font size. That required changing the ball. From my readings these memos were most likely made on IBM executive typewriters, not selectrics, and didn't use a ball. They did come with whatever font the customer wanted on nearly a key for key basis (if you were an important customer like the government or state of texas). Name one typewriter from that era that could do kerning...None exist. The wingers are throwing you a red-herring. kerning is OFF, that means no kerning, that means the typewriter didn't have to do kerning because there isn't any exhibited. The paper size back then was smaller. If CBS had old copies of originals we would see a line where the CBS copies and old papers did not align. The size on the PDF copy on my screen is a full 12 inches across. I'm not suggesting that the memos are actually that wide, but I am suggesting that it's not clear from image forms what the original size is. This is another case of seeing whatever you look for in a noisy environment. Who is to say that CBS had to copy small paper to large before taking an image? When I run my scanner it crops the scanned image to the paper size for me. What is really going on is Karl Rove's team data-mining for trivia. They think if they can find a stream of headscratchers it will make the issue seem in doubt for a long time. The real key is again to look to the narrative. All of these little differences require a different set of assumptions for each difference. It is much more likely that it is just the result of different clerk typists on different days and a noisy data set. TP