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About the typewriters is you feel kind of connected to the people who have used it in the past. and then, of course, theres the clickety-clack everybody loves. >> reporter: computers crushed the typewriter, a pandemic has brought them. back. and tom furrier is busier than ever, happily refusing to turn the page. >> my wife my find me with a spring hook and a screwdriver in m hand slumped over a typewriter some day, and that will be it. >> reporter: david wade, cbs news, arlington, massachusetts....

first, 40 years ago this past friday, december 23, president richard nixon declared the war on cancer. >> and i hope that in the years ahead that we may look pack on this day and this action as being the most significant action taken during this administration. >> president nixon had big expectations, and we have come a long way since 1971. but still even today, cancers going to strike down one in four americans. there are smart people who will tell you up front that we may be losing t...

Because he was in so much pain. we were very close. i tried to keep him from crying, trying to make him happy. i remember a lot of things as if they were yesterday. and i remember being in the train going to the hospital. take a trolley, take the elevator, which is really a train and my mother would -- would get in the front carriage and i remember him setting my brother and i up by the door so we could watch the train tracks go back and ill never forget the clickety clack, the dot, the dot, the...