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...words, the computers each year arrange 150,000 citations alphabetically. This list is printed by a computer-driven phototypesetter, and the result is a book, the Index Medicus, which goes to 7,000 libraries around the world. A researcher in London, for example, can leaf through the Index, find the citation he wants, and request it of his local librarian, or, if necessary, seek a copy from Bethesda. Chemists benefit from a similar service in Columbus, Ohio, where articles on their specialty are abstracted and indexed by computer; the "express-indexes" are sold by subscription. Bookless Colleges. The next step...
...seven exactly a man with a leaf-stripped branch...
...militiamen stalk the streets with fixed bayonets and grenades at their belts; as part of the effort to deceive U.S. pilots, bicycle handlebars and wheel rims are painted camouflage green, and farmers wear banana branches in their hats. Even pigs on the way to market are artfully shrouded in leaf-bedecked nets. Reportedly, more than 300,000 women and children have been evacuated from Hanoi in preparation for aerial attack, but after seeing the bombed-out bridges downcountry, many have filtered back into Hanoi, which they regard as a sanctuary...
They are known in the trade as "gift books," and they assuredly qualify: usually big and expensive, they make handsome presents that flatter the recipient with their implied suggestion that someone cares a lot-and carry no obligation to do more than leaf through them once. But the tag is unnecessarily depreciative, for the best of the gift books can be exhilarating visual as well as literary experiences: passports to fine art the viewer might never otherwise see, inaccessible realms he might never otherwise visit. Among the best of the recent gift books...
Shortly after Roosevelt's death. Miss Perkins' resignation was accepted by President Truman, but she remained in Government for another seven years as a civil-service commissioner. The day Dwight Eisenhower was inaugurated she resigned for good, the "last leaf," she said cheerfully, on the New Deal tree. Last week, her accomplishments part of the fabric of American social reform. Frances Perkins died in Manhattan at 83, following a stroke...