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...Clasp. In the end, it was his audacity that led to his conviction. When a disaffected KGB agent betrayed him, he was caught red-handed with the tools of his trade, including hol-lowed-out cuff links and other secret-message containers, a code book, a coded telegram, microfilm equipment and maps of U.S. defense areas. "It's incredible," Abel's defense attorney James B. Donovan told him, "you violated most of the basic rules of espionage with all that paraphernalia lying around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Advice to Young Spies | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...Academic freedom can be taken for granted at many places besides Harvard, and technology--microfilm, the airplane--makes it less urgent for a scholar to live near the most established centers of scholarship...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: The Dunlop Report | 5/22/1968 | See Source »

...taken Bell & Howell a long way. The founders, who stuck pretty much to movie equipment, provided Hollywood with its first reliable projectors and cameras, could fairly boast that they "took the flickers out of the flicks." Chuck Percy sought new fields, led Bell & Howell deep into such areas as microfilm and mailing systems, business machines and bindery gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Technology's Midwife | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...library space in Paine Hall will be used for a microfilm-viewing room and the Ishan Microfilm Collection, which is now stored in Memorial Church. The collection contains microfilms of rare or fragile scores and manuscripts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music Dept. Launches Drive for $3.5 Million | 5/17/1967 | See Source »

...likely to hear a lot more about that decision. Shortly after the 1964 election, he spelled out his position in a twelve-page letter to Goldwater-written at Barry's request. The original is believed to have gone to Dean Burch, then G.O.P. national chairman, with a microfilm copy in Goldwater's personal files and a carbon in Romney's possession. The letter's contents have not been made public, but the New York Daily News's perceptive Washington columnist, Ted Lewis, quoting "hearsay" reports, said that it criticized the "extremist" tone of Goldwater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Consensus by Any Other Name | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

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