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Radcliffe sophomores, juniors, and seniors have been extended a special invitation to attend the first meeting of the CRIMSON fall competition in an attempt to replenish the somewhat depleted Annex bureau of the news-paper...
Although the Coop text-book annex offers much more of an invitation to the would-be thief, elaborate precautionary methods have kept losses there to approximately the same as in years past...
When prospective customers enter the annex, they pass several clerks stationed to guard against the one-way entry being used as an exit. Anyone who slips out faces a policeman alerted by spotters in the Coop's second-story rear windows. While students browse through the open book stacks, a detective scans them carefully until they reach the cash registers, which are also watched by a policeman...
Today, despite the addition of a $10 million annex, the library is hard put to preserve, store and display its growing hoard. For lack of personnel, books from its stacks cannot be issued after 6 p.m. Its 2,300,000 maps need far more space. For lack of funds, its collection of 2,234,000 photos and slides is kept filed away instead of being exhibited throughout the country. Despite President Eisenhower's request for more funds, the 83rd Congress has appropriated only $8,965,000-a decrease of 5%-to help new Librarian Mumford take care...
Already the laboratory is probably obsolete. If a 5-megaton H-bomb like the one detonated in "Operation Ivy" (TIME, April 12) were aimed at the White House, experts calculate that the laboratory would lie within the "heavy damage" radius (three to seven miles); and the expendable south annex would be shattered. If a much larger H-bomb were dropped, the monolith's chances of survival would be slim indeed...