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I find it quite believable that a Lt. Colonel might have picked up one of those IBM balls for his typewriter back then. The Reserves are one thing, Active Duty quite another. An officer in the reserves might well have dipped into his own pocket or known somebody who knew somebody. I was a college student back then, working on the circulation desk of a state university library. I remember that the woman who typed up the catalog cards had one of those fancy IBM balls on her typewriter (invaluable for typing up the old style library cards that went into the card catalogs). She let me use that typewriter to type up a term paper once which is why I remember it - footnotes were a breeze compared to typing them up on my clunky manual that I had back in my dorm. If one of those gizmo's could show up at an underfunded university library, I don't see why the same couldn't have happened in a Lt. Colonel's office.
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