Word: microfilms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said President Clinton will tour North Dakota on Tuesday to assess the extent of the flood damage. One of his stops: Grand Forks, which lost several buildings, including the offices and newsroom of the Grand Forks Herald, after a fire raged through the area. The paper lost its entire microfilm collection, which dated back to 1879 and recorded almost all of the city's history. The firefighting effort was crippled by water as high as five feet between the buildings. The river was expected to crest at 54 feet Monday, 26 feet above flood stage. Upriver, the news was better...
...just before the start of the New Deal, he went underground for the party. Based in New York City or Baltimore, Maryland, Chambers--code-named "Bob" and later "Karl"--made his furtive way in the world of disappearing ink and microfilm. It was serious enough espionage, although the U.S. authorities were fairly heedless of it at the time. One of Chambers' Soviet accomplices remembered, "If you wore a sign saying, 'I am a spy,' you might still not get arrested...
BORN: Nov. 10, 1934, Newark, N.J. EDUCATION: Cornell U, B.A., 1957, M.A., 1967 FAMILY: Divorced; five children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Microfilm-company executive; engineer POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 3830 Packard Road, Suite 180, Ann Arbor...
...first few were easy enough: three members of Carter's West Point class of 1919 made TIME's cover, and all gladly signed. The colonel accumulated old copies of the magazine, scouring libraries that were throwing out back issues once they had transferred them to microfilm. He wrote letters, even sometimes sent the cover subject a gift as an enticement to sign. Among those who took the bait: Pablo Picasso, Joseph R. McCarthy, Herbert Hoover, Charles de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek, Andy Warhol, Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio, Hopalong Cassidy (actor William Boyd) and all four Marx...
Since that time Wendorf said it has been available to scholars, adding that users could consult a microfilm copy available in the reading room. In fact, library records show the microfilm has been checked out five times...