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This month the Harvard University Library System won a $939,000 grant that it will use to copy some decaying items in its history of science collection from paper to microfilm...
...industrial-university complex. But the onetime professor at M.I.T.--where he built a massive, gear-driven analog computer called the differential analyzer--was also a prophet. In 1945, dismayed by the wartime info overload, he proposed a desktop machine, the "memex," that would display text and pictures (from a microfilm library) at the press of a button. Presciently, Bush envisioned users of his proto-PC following trails of knowledge along storable hypertext "links," much like today's Web surfers...
...anniversary of Ralph Branca's fateful pitch and Bobby Thomson's subsequent home run--the so-called shot heard 'round the world that gave the New York Giants a playoff victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers and the National League championship--DeLillo went to the library and looked up on microfilm the front page of the New York Times for Oct. 4, 1951, the day after the game. He discovered something that produced what he now calls "a hush in my mind": the Giants' triumph headlined three columns wide on the left and a headline in an identical format...
...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...