Word: microfilm
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...dossier dictatorship"-the vast files that are now being computerized by assorted snoopers, ranging from credit bureaus to Army agents, who allegedly concentrate their spying on war protesters. Dramatizing his worries about computers, Ervin displayed two props: a 1,245-page Bible and a two-inch-square piece of microfilm, each containing 773,746 words. "Someone remarked that this meant the Constitution could be reduced to the size of a pin-head," he drawled. "I said I thought maybe that was what they had done with it in the Executive Branch because some of those officials could...
...million, want to re-enter the scene at General Dynamics? Last year profits tumbled from a 1966 peak of $54 million to $2,530,000, only one-tenth of 1% of the company's $2.5 billion sales. G.D. has been plagued by losses in its shipyard division, a microfilm products subsidiary, and the controversial F-111 fighter-bomber...
...computer-indexed, microfilm archive of intelligence reports, newspaper clippings, and other records of political protest and civil disturbances at the CIAD headquarters in Alexandria...
...small point that Dormann and his sponsors seemed to miss was the fact that the Government, through the Library of Congress and the National Archives, already does an excellent job of attending to presidential papers. Moreover, microfilm of many such papers exists in more than 100 U.S. libraries, and copies of specific documents are available cheaply to scholars...
...Correspondent Neil MacNeil found that the sixth floor contains what was meant to be the presidential bedroom. Lacking Presidents who want to sleep there, it has been converted into a conference area called "The Teddy Roosevelt Room"; it has a moosehead. The fourth floor contains the library's microfilm collection; it occupies a single drawer and consists of copied George Washington papers. There are three study rooms there, but not a single book on their many shelves...