Word: microfilm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Documents Room. Where all the microfilm machines are, in the basement of Lamont Library. The Documents Room is cavelike and very cool, but doesn't have easy chairs. Nonetheless you can read back issues of the New Orleans Times-Picayune to your heart's content...
...small, quiet reading room to one of the largest journalistic research facilities in the world. Its 14 research librarians field more than 100,000 queries a year from Time Inc. people (53,000 last year from TIME alone). Presided over by Chief Librarian Benjamin Lightman, the library holds extensive microfilm records of TIME correspondents' dispatches, plus 500,000 highly specialized file folders containing countless millions of newspaper and magazine clippings (sample subjects: children's motels, underwater painting, women astronauts). There are also some 75,000 books, including all standard reference works and such useful exotica as A History...
...federal bureaucracy has just finished saluting the industry that keeps it in business. President Nixon proclaimed last week the first National Microfilm Week in honor of the process that has made possible a vast accumulation of records for Social Security and more arcane institutions. It was an appropriate recognition, since the Federal Government is the nation's most prodigious user of microfilm. Rivaling the marble palaces of Washington, D.C., mountains of microfilm have been tirelessly assembled by diligent bureaucrats, who build with a blind devotion worthy of the men who once erected the Pyramids. Unfortunately, the monumental results...
...unconstitutional-the regulation that would require banks to report to the Treasury any deposit or withdrawal of more than $10,000, except for recurring transactions like those in corporate payroll accounts. But the judges left untouched requirements that banks must report any foreign transactions of more than $5,000, microfilm the front and back of virtually every check that any U.S. resident writes and store those records for five years against the possibility that a Government agent may want to take a look...
...artist while leading his double life in Brooklyn. There he rented a $35-a-month studio near the federal courthouse. Like fictional spies, Abel used a variety of arcane items: hollow bolts and coins to carry messages, phony documents, cipher books. In 1953 one of his hollow nickels containing microfilm found its way into the hands of a newsboy, who gave the coin to the police. But FBI agents did not bag Abel until four years later, when an underling defected and turned him in. He admitted only that he had entered the U.S. illegally, but he was convicted...