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...pitch was not phrased in exactly that way, the MTA did indeed offer last July to lease two vacant subway tunnels to "an imaginative entrepreneur." Now Vital Records Inc. of Raritan, N.J., thinks that it has enough imagination. The company, which stores financial records on computer tapes and microfilm for 50 of the largest U.S. corporations, proposes to convert the tunnels into a vast underground filing cabinet...
...really matter. Once, we think, we were a people of the book. Now we begin to seem, perhaps irreparably, a people of the tube. The race of literary giants, the tyrant genius founders (Homer, Tolstoi, Flaubert, Joyce, Proust and so-on), will of course be safely stowed away on microfilm:literature freeze-dried, the Great Books kept as curios of the culture, like shrunken heads. But the writing we tend to get now, books milling around aimlessly at the dead end of the post modern (or wherever we technically find ourselves), seem somehow . . .inadequate. Our literature paces like...
...files from the embassy in Tehran may haunt Washington for years. One high-ranking Iranian official, TIME has learned, claims that the published papers are "only the tip of the iceberg." He says the militants recently discovered an extensive microfilm library of U.S. documents in the embassy. "We had no inkling we were sitting on such a gold mine," said the official. "We shall release these documents at sensitive times, in the best interests of the revolution." The story of how the U.S. failed to grasp what was happening in Iran seems to be far from over...
...Today everyone can "see" the President practically every day. We now know so much about the man while he is in office, and about his career before he got there, that it might seem there is nothing left for "history" to say. But in this age of paper and microfilm, Government and its officials are generating documentation at a prodigious rate. As scholars mine all this material (some of it under security restrictions for 20 years or more), as reminiscences of presidential intimates become available, as diaries and letters come to light, presidential ratings will continue to fluctuate...
Though the roof replacement may avert threats posed by leaks in Widener for many years, the natural aging process eats away at some books within--8 million frames of microfilm of pages of books in poor condition were prepared recently. And they have also begun to utilize "deep freeze" machines to preserve books and exterminate pesty and destructive bugs...