Word: microfilm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Press packets summarizing the contents of the papers will be distributed at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Harvard News Office said yesterday. The Sacco and Vanzetti papers will also be available on microfilm, the spokesman added...
...nickel apiece for orders of 500), Except for the color, the check is a blushing copy of the personal checks that his customers send in to be reproduced; the red-faced checks even include the bank's magnetized numbers for automatic sorting. It is possible to microfilm the checks with special equipment, but most banks find that regular processing produces a gray blur. Bankers speculate that since banks are required by law to keep microfilm records, a time may come when an individual's use of Blackley's checks might require legal challenge...
...idea is not some new Christmas Club banking gimmick but an imaginative scheme for making a little money and protecting the confidentiality of personal banking records at the same time. As a two-year federal study into the abuses of privacy showed earlier this year (TIME, July 18), the microfilm records kept by banks of all the checks written by their customers are being made available, not only to the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service but to an army of local and private snoops as well...
Such easy access to intimate financial dealings disturbs many people,* but it made James M. Blackley, 30, president of the Charlotte, N.C., Libertarian Society, see red-literally-and then think green. Learning that ordinary microfilm is unable to distinguish between certain shades of red and other colors, including blue and black ink, Blackley decided to start printing checks on red paper. When the checks were made out, the ink would be perfectly visible against the rosy-hued ground. But when the draft was microfilmed, he figured, it would become a blank; anything written or printed would disappear...
...visit the nearest of more than 20 genealogy libraries maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). The branch can draw on resources of the central Mormon library in Salt Lake City, which has the world's largest repository of family genealogical information (on microfilm alone it has the equivalent of 4.3 million 300-page printed volumes). Its resources are open to non-Mormons and Mormons alike...