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Fourteen years ago Joan Sutherland left Sidney as an unknown typist. Last week she returned home as La Stupenda, heading her own opera company, with 145 members, for a four-week tour of Australia. Melbourne proudly put on its best bib and tucker for the local girl who made good. Bewigged footmen in period costume bowed as they opened the doors of Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, Jaguars and Daimlers for elegant women wearing chinchilla and diamond tiaras, distinguished men in white tie and tails as they passed through the chilly Australian winter night into Her Majesty's Theater. The glittering...
Rebellious Reporters. From California to Florida, composing rooms are humming and clicking to the tune of modern electronics. No longer must a printer justify lines by hand -expanding or contracting them to fit the width of a column. Nor need he worry about hyphenating words. Instead, a typist punches out a tape that is then fed into a computer. Out comes another tape, this one justified and hyphenated, ready to be fed into an automatic high-speed typesetter...
...American and Bendix, who pay dearly for the services of what Mrs. Hurst characterizes as "the Rolls-Royce of employment agencies." Brook Street carefully tests its girls for professional skills, personality and appearance, accepts only one out of every three it interviews, and refuses to place a shorthand typist unless she has had a minimum of three years' experience. In setting up tests, Mrs. Hurst at first demanded that applicants equal her own typing skill. She soon realized, of course, that "no one was likely to be as good as I, so I had to put up with...
...machine can be mastered in three weeks by an experienced typist, who can then tap out a symphony or a fugue at the rate of about 60 notes a minute...
...elder statesman, Phan Khac Suu, 63, who spent eight years in prison for his opposition first to the French and later to Diem. At least theoretically, Suu was empowered to pick a civilian Premier to replace Khanh, reportedly asked Saigon Mayor Tran Van Huong, 61, a sometime porter, clerk-typist and school official, who says: "I was born under an unlucky star...