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While a military guard stood at attention, the original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, temporarily kept in the Library of Congress, were put this week in their permanent home in the National Archives Exhibition Hall. Their home is a big glass showcase which, at the touch of a button, sinks slowly through the floor into a huge vault in the cellar. The 50-ton safe, a bombproof, thiefproof, fireproof stronghold with 15-in. thick walls and 5-ton armored doors will keep the historic documents...

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