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To: Alighieri who wrote (201948)	9/14/2004 9:49:51 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573365

Look at page 3 of the following docs released by the WH ...in it you will clearly see a superscripted 111th...explain how it was produced if, as you say, the equipment of the day was not capable. Nobody has said you couldn't produce superscript in fixed pitch type. The issue is whether it could be produced in proportionally spaced type. Nobody has yet to produce a document of the era BESIDES these which had superscript character pairs (like "th" or "nd") in PROPORTIONAL spacing, and in fact, no such documents will be produced because an appropriate type ball for them didn't exist, which is precisely what I said the day this was initially discussed on this thread. Furthermore, the documents have totally been discredited on other grounds. Rather is making a fool of himself and CBS will be further dragged down with him. Which suits me fine. The only honesty on television comes from Fox news. Thank God Rupert Murdoch had the intuition to realize there was an under-served market -- those who wanted HONEST REPORTING.

To: Alighieri who wrote (201948)	9/14/2004 10:00:24 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573365

an IBM selectric of the day was more than capable. This typewriter was even more capable and was a popular and big seller of the time. It had proportional fonts and a variety of special character (like superscript) that could be ordered. etypewriters.com <font color=green>the Executive differed in having a multiple escapement mechanism and four widths for letters, producing a near typeset quality result. </font> TP

To: Alighieri who wrote (201948)	9/14/2004 10:26:34 AM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573365

Al(Jezeerah), Re: "Bush says he did not defy an order" "The White House said yesterday President Bush did not defy a direct order from his commanding officer during his 1970s stint with the Texas Air National Guard, answering, for the first time, accusations that the former pilot did not deserve the honorable discharge that he received. Despite the questionable authenticity of a document dated May 4, 1972, purportedly showing that Mr. Bush was "ordered to report ... no later than 14 May to conduct annual physical examination (flight)" — an exam that the young lieutenant skipped — White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett said Mr. Bush had talked with his commanding officer about a planned move to a base in Alabama, which did not fly the plane on which he was certified, the F-102. "I don't accept that premise, that he defied a direct order. He did not take a flight physical because he was no longer going to fly," Mr. Bartlett told The Washington Times. "It's not as if he was defying, as people try to say, a direct order. He was speaking to the very commanders who were in charge of the unit at the time about his personal situation and what he was doing and explaining why he wasn't going to take the flight exam. ... I think the commanders were obvious in saying, then keeping your flight status up was irrelevant." Mr. Bush moved to Alabama in the spring of 1972 to work on the Senate campaign of Winton Blount, a family friend. He returned to his unit at Ellington, Texas, that November. Until he received permission to transfer to reserve status so he could attend Harvard Business School in the fall of 1973, he participated in nonflying drills and worked at an inner-city poverty program. To dispel the charge that the president disobeyed a direct order, Mr. Bartlett said another disputed document — an unsigned memo dated May 19, 1972, that CBS News attributed to Mr. Bush's former commander, the late Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian — says, "We talked about him getting his flight physical situation fixed." He noted that the memo said Mr. Bush "says he will do that in Alabama if he stays in a flight status." "Even if you take the documents at face value and said that they were authentic, you can tell by one of the memos where it said that he talked to Bush about his flight exam. We obviously interpret that as he was working with his commanders on the very issue as to whether he needed to take it or not. He obviously ended up not taking it because he was not flying," Mr. Bartlett said. Mr. Bartlett said he had showed the documents — broadcast last week by CBS News and questioned by many analysts — to Mr. Bush "and he did not remember them." "He remembers not taking the flight exam, obviously, but he said, 'It wasn't a big deal because I was going to Alabama where I wasn't going to be flying,' " Mr. Bartlett said." Make It So, Yousef