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Word: breastpocket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Camera dealers in Florida have been getting orders for the past few weeks from customers as far away as Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and New York City. Orders are pouring in because Florida is the only state where Polaroid's new, breastpocket-sized SX-70 models (TIME Cover, June 26) will be sold until next year, and camera buffs are rushing to buy it. Indeed, Polaroid itself has thousands of unsolicited orders from photographers around the U.S. Though the buyers are willing to make the $180 camera one of the hottestChristmas items in years, Polaroid and its dealers will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHOTOGRAPHY: Say Bug | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...enterprise as well: Washington Correspondent Vera Glaser cracked a secret women's caucus with a concealed tape recorder, and her colleague Clark Hoyt had the first story on how anti-McGovern forces were conspiring to support local candidates in November instead of the national ticket. Several papers used breastpocket "beepers" to maintain contact with their reporters, but the technique backfired on the Los Angeles Times: one of its men was ejected from a closed black caucus when his beeper went off, blowing his cover as a delegate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Media Mob | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

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