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Posterity Is Here. Whether the U.S. intended it or not, it now has the world's largest library. And so long as it receives by law two copies of every book copyrighted in the U.S., it will continue to swell. The library began (in 1789) with a Congressman'...
A book that spends months travelling from India or Austria collects a lot of dust, and since Schoenhof's bookstore is full of foreign volumes, the air is thick and musty. In the labyrinthine passageways Mr. Paul Mueller and his ten assistants scurry around the great piles; people pop out...
When science hatched the atomic age, moralists and politicians were handed some frightful problems. A different sort of problem is now nagging the scientists themselves: what to do with the deadly radioactive waste products turned out by all the chain-reacting piles? Last week Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, an Oak...
With more atomic piles at work, such put-it-off-till-tomorrow methods may have to be abandoned. Dr. Morgan, keeping a fairly straight face, mentioned a definitive solution: why not concentrate the deadly isotopes into one big lot, load them into high-powered rockets, and-aiming at no particular...
All down the quayside, as unloading began, huge cranes bit into the piles of U.S. goods flowing into Argentina. So great was the jam of U.S. crates that port authorities last week ordered freighters following the Mormacwave to lie in the roadstead till the docks were partly cleared.