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...Oscar Handlin, Adams University Professor, advocated U.S. intervention in countries threatened by communism and described citizen action against nuclear war as "useless and illusionary" at a Cambridge Forum last night...
Finally Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor amd director of the University Library, may have found the perfect cure for the didn't-get-what-I-wanted-for-Christmas-blues. Asked what he wanted for Christmas this year, Handlin said, "I gave up being cute years...
...contrast to the previously proposed overhaul of the whole library, Handlin and Yen-Tsai Feng, librarian of Harvard College, continue to plan but with a new way of thinking about renovations: "If money turned up, what would we do first," When an anonymous donation came through, there was no question that a new copper roof should replace the leaky, old one which threatened to damage Widener's priceless collections...
...Handlin says that if Widener were to conduct a study outlining a complete program of renovations, "it would probably show a need for $20 million." That, Handlin adds, is the wrong strategy in a time renovation funds are short across the University. Instead, Handlin and Feng make careful, preliminary plans for better use and efficiency of the building, and propose renovations in less-costly stages in order of need...
...microfiche catologue system--slated for introduction this fall--will eventually replace the mammoth card system, freeing space and making the list of Widener holdings available at over 100 locations, Handlin and Feng say. "We haven't hurried into this. We've let other people make mistakes. Our system's too big and complex to make them," Handlin says...