Word: microfilming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...documents, dating from as far back as 2,000 B.C., form an irreplaceable record. But if the library were destroyed, the substance and art of its contents would not be lost. Eight years ago the Jesuit fathers of Missouri's Roman Catholic St. Louis University got permission to microfilm some 30,000 key Vatican Library manuscripts. Backed financially by the Knights of Columbus, they have now recorded a staggering 11 million pages from such works as St. Thomas Aquinas' original manuscript, Summa Contra Gentiles, and the famed 4th century Codex Vaticanus copy of the Bible (TIME, April...
...Louis has more than prosaic microfilm. Father Lowrie J. Daly, associate professor of history, who first proposed the ambitious project, was so struck by the overpowering beauty of many of the works selected that he decided to make 4.000 additional 2-in. by 2-in. color slides to supplement the 35-mm. microfilm collection...
...officers he volunteered information which represented the incident, but in a disguised and misleading form. He named only a man named Eltonton who, he said, had approached three people on the project, through a harmless intermediary, with this proposal. He added that Eltonton had "a lot of experience in microfilm work, or whatever the hell" and contact with a Soviet Embassy man attached to a local consulate. Shortly thereafter, on being prodded to supply details, he said in fact that only one man had been approached, namely himself, and that the intermediary had been a "Professor X." He told...
Rooms now in use by the Archives and the Publication Agent will be turned into about six studies for senior members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, while the present class records office will be used as a reading room for the University's microfilm collection...
...speech since his release from the Lewisburg federal pen in 1954, turned out to be tame and dull. Protesters that morning had tried to warm Hiss's reception by decking the campus with some 100 papier-mâché pumpkins containing photographs of a Woodstock typewriter and microfilm, reminiscent of the pumpkin papers and other evidence that convicted him. Dawn also unveiled three signs protesting "Traitor" in foot-high red letters. But ex-State Department Employee Hiss, 51, appearing before about 200 students and 50 newsmen, spoke with dry pedantry on "The Meaning of Geneva," dulled...