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What makes the collection unique is its remarkable organization. A card catalog indexes all pictures by assignment, subject, quality of the print and pose (full face, profile, smiling, shaking hands). Cross-references note the backgrounds in each photo, as well as peripheral people and prominent objects: a birthday cake, a motorcycle, a puppy. Even so, some objects slip through the indexing net. Last fall photographs were sought for a Living story about a particular Swedish ivy on the White House Oval Office mantel. There was no index listing for the plant, and hundreds of White House pictures...
...mini-doodads: one-night stays and spotty service, which force many harried transients to become their own concierges. "Most vice presidents of a company would never have carried a travel steamer in the past," says Duane Knapp, former president of the firm that publishes United Airlines' in-flight catalog, "but now they don't have time to send their trousers out to be pressed...
...addition, the store's facade is sporting new decorations this year and for the first time Christmas music is being piped out to both sidewalks. The Coop also has sent out 167,000 copies of its mail order Christmas catalog to members and non-members alike...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence added, however, that the University will move slowly toward this end. It would cost Harvard $20 million, he said, just to transfer the Widener card catalog to a computer data base...
...weeks ago, 130 of America's most devoted hackers gathered in the barracks of a refurbished Army post in Sausalito, Calif., at the invitation of a group of computer experts headed by Stewart Brand, editor in chief of the Whole Earth Software Catalog. Brand's idea was to bring together, for the first time, people from several generations of hackers, and his guests included some of the brightest stars in computing: Ted Nelson, author of Computer Lib, a widely read handbook from the mid-1970s; Stephen Wozniak, who built the original Apple computer; Lee Felsenstein, designer...