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...Metal Insert. The answer to the librarians' plight may lie in an electronic device demonstrated last week in Flint, Mich. Playing the part of a thief, a Flint librarian slipped a library book under his coat, then walked boldly to the exit. There was a loud click as the turnstile locked, then a buzzing noise as the librarian was alerted. Even as the "thief" sheepishly explained that he "forgot" to sign out his book, a patron whose book had been properly checked out strode easily through the same turnstile...
Invented by Emmanuel Mitchell Trikilis, a self-taught Columbus engineer, the "Sentronic" book detector works on the ancient principle of magnetism. A sliver of magnetized metal is hidden somewhere in a book's spine or binding, and the librarian who checks the book out simply demagnetizes the metal insert by passing the book through a coil carrying an electric current. If a thief bolts for the exit instead of the check-out desk, the magnetized metal inside his book is detected by an instrument that trips a solenoid hidden at the door; the turnstile is automatically locked...
Charies P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for civic and governmental affairs, said yesterday that he saw "some hope" that the committee would not insert the disclaimer in the compromise bill. But if it is retained, he added, it is likely to be warmly accepted by the House...
...second issue was extremism. It had produced the major conflict of the convention when the G.O.P. moderates sought to insert an anti-extremism plank in the party platform. Goldwater's delegates shouted them down, and Barry threw the issue back in the moderates' faces. "I like those lines," he said, and he ordered them underlined in his printed text. "I would remind you," the lines went, "that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue...
...office-machine competition will become even hotter when IBM this week introduces a typewriter with a memory tape. Dubbed the "Magnetic Tape Selectric," it can store up typed words and figures, then tap out copies at up to 180 words per minute. The typewriter operator can also revise or insert names, addresses, prices or other data. Or the body of a letter can be stored on one tape, different addresses and inserts on another tape, and the machine can then produce a series of finished letters without the aid of human hands. Good for repetitive forms, legal briefs and contracts...