Word: typist
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...creatures ever to crawl the streets of Ithaca. He wore the same football jersey torn at the letters to every class enabling him to examine his bellybutton at leisure. There was Greek the gambler: Captain kirk the pinball wizard: and his roommate Studly the womanizer. There was the Mad Typist who lived down the hall from my dingy basement cell never slept and ingested a dozen No-Doz daily and Howard Machine the visiting professor from Britain who never really caught on to his students' indifference and absence...
...total disregard for the way hands and people are put together. The keyboard favors southpaws by placing most frequently used letters on the left. Thumbs are underused; weak, and less supple, little fingers must shift from upper to lower case. In a day's work, a good typist's fingertips travel twelve to 20 miles...
...Maltron "home row," where fingertips are normally placed in touch typing, vs. 51% for the QWERTY. Under the Maltron system, hands rarely have to "hurdle" (i.e., jump upward or sideways so fingers can strike keys). In one comparative study of a million words of copying, the typist's hands had to hurdle 82,000 times on the QWERTY board, but only 320 times on the Maltron. Secretaries in a Maltron test sponsored by the British government found it takes about a month to convert to the new system. Most enjoyed it. "Your fingers don't ache," said Julie...
Poor pulchritudinous Elizabeth Ray, 36, the only aspiring actress who was ever non-type-cast. Ray went into show biz after flopping as a non-typist for powerful Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays. Both Ray and Hays lost their jobs following revelations of their great and good friendship. Ray has tried since to make it in the theater. Last week she opened at Manhattan's Riverboat in a nightclub act that was, just possibly, worse than her typing...
...negotiating session ended at 2 a.m. Thursday, but the treaty documents could not be taken to Vienna until midday Friday. One reason: the Soviets in Geneva had to make do with primitive manual typewriters, cumbersome paper almost as thick as cardboard and a 1950s-vintage copying machine. If a typist made a single error, the page had to be retyped. The Americans used a high-speed word-processing machine; errors could be corrected almost instantaneously...