Word: microfilmed
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Since 1943, Widener Library has housed the world's largest collection of biographical material in one place on one man. Its Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Library, now on Display" in Widner, contains more than 12,000 books, besides microfilm records of 125,000 letters written by Roosevelt, and over 5,000 photographs and cartoons. The collection, begun 34 years ago by the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association, now covers much of Widener's fourth floor, spilling over onto the sixth floor...
Last October, while on his honeymoon in the West Indies, McCarthy learned that the Army had suspended several Fort Monmouth employees as "security risks." With that, the honeymoon was over. McCarthy flew to New York and " began closed hearings. Unidentified witnesses scuttled in and out, rumors of missing microfilm and sinister scientists filtered through, and from time to time McCarthy emerged with dark reports of a Communist espionage ring organized by Atom Spy Julius Rosenberg, which "may still be in existence" at Fort Monmouth...
...Plan of the week : a Pope Pius XII memorial library, containing in microfilm the 50,000 manuscript volumes of the Vatican, to be built at a cost of between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 on the campus of St. Louis University...
...time anthropologist, the museum's building is clean and functional, all on one floor and with plenty of well-lighted exhibition space. There is a comfortable auditorium with a stage and movie screen, a wing of workshops with special looms for reweaving damaged fabrics, photo labs and a microfilm room, a complete research library and special workrooms for visiting scholars. The building is air-conditioned, and when visitors get tired of looking at the exhibits, they can relax in the museum's handsome lounge, or wander out onto a flagstone patio for a view of the Sangre...
Though CIA officials do not admit it publicly, the agency was from the start engaged in a wide range of "covert activities": espionage, aid to resistance movements and perhaps sabotage. Armed with all the traditional devices of espionage and a few 20th century improvements, such as plastic explosives and microfilm which can be sealed under the stamp on an envelope, CIA agents spread across the world. Covert activities have a vast glamour, and emphasis on them is effective public-relations policy...