Rome clinic saves VIP books at unique hospital for volumes
The Alfonso Gallo Institute of Book Pathology in Rome treats only high status books deemed terminal or irreplaceable. Since 1938 the clinic has revived over 1,000 books and 1,500 manuscripts, using microbiologists chemists and technicians, with no charge to libraries funded by the Italian government.
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Rome
Alfonso Gallo
Europe
Iron Curtain
Bianca Galanti
Institute
Italy
Fausta Gallo
Franca Manganelli
Leningrad
Warsaw
John Q. Public
Silver Salmon Project Sails Into San Francisco Bay
The Tyee club leads a state federal effort to raise and release tens of thousands of silver salmon in San Francisco Bay. Last year about 5000 fish were released and caught around Berkeley mud flats and Carquinez straits. Scientists inoculated all fish against bacteria.
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San Francisco
Bay
Tyee Club
Robert Brown
Berkeley
Carquinez Straits
Golden Gate
Discounted History and Cooking Books Collection
A sale catalog lists titles with reduced prices including In This Proud Land 1935 43 photos of common citizens Was 20.00 Now 8.98 Hunting For All Seasons illustrated Was 5.95 Now 2.49 The A Z of Chinese Cooking fully illustrated 60 color photos Was 12.50 Now 4.98 Collecting Country and Western Americana by D Beck Specially priced 4.98 Sports Immortals Fifty of Sports all time greats Selected by the Associated Press Was 17.95 Now 7.98 Great Trains of the World panel of experts well written history Illustrated Specially priced 10.98 The Civil War Extra Moehring and Keylim Was 35.00 Now 12.98 Pictorial History of World War II Charles Herridge With illustrations depict drama of war Specially 7.98
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America
Associated Press
Moehring
Keylin
Charles Herridge
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The
Cedar Rapids
Sun
Termites
Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania
Nino Lo Bello
First Ag College
Charles I
England
J. Wiebusch
Charlotte Turgeon
P. Benoit
Vince Lombardi
George Flinn
A. C. Revi
United States
Angelo Saver
Guy Williams
H. Hanley
D. Beck
Parkade
Killians
Lindale
Iowa City
Visa
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