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Special Officer Thomas Scanlon, a 24-year veteran of the Harvard police who met and befriended a generation of Harvard freshmen in his years of patrolling the Yard, bowed out before 250 friends and co-workers who gathered at the Pound Building to cheer him into retirement...
Shareholders had more than the new Polavision system to cheer about. The company's instant still-picture cameras, including the Pronto line (the cheapest sells at discount for less than $50) introduced about a year ago, are doing very well. They have prevented archrival Eastman Kodak, the giant of U.S. photography with sales of $5.4 billion, from grabbing as much of the market as expected in its first year in the instant-camera field.* Polaroid's 1976 sales of $950 million missed the magic billion-dollar mark by a shutter click, and its first-quarter 1977 profits jumped...
...strongest negative reaction has come from a group of male executives. They didn't mind being portrayed by women. It was simply that they detest the way we depicted them." But the most puzzled reaction, adds Sills, has come from feminists. "They don't know whether to cheer or boo. They're confused and want to think through all of the ramifications." After one screening in Manhattan, several feminists said they were afraid that audiences would see the program not as a satire but as a hideous projection of a female-dominated world...
...station operator, managed to take calamity in stride. His reason: "This is the 26th time I've been flooded since I came here in 1957." At Jack's Union 76 Service Station near Sneedville, Tenn. (pop. 1,000). Owner Jack Stapleton even found cause for cheer, though the Clinch River had risen a record 26 ft. above its banks, sweeping away houses and barns. "The river is going down," he said. "Nobody got killed or hurt bad. The sun is shining, and the birds are singing...
...Janata leaders predicted a landslide by their party, but many realized in the closing days of the campaign that Congress was in trouble. Opposition rallies were jammed, while Prime Minister's audiences were embarrassingly apathetic. Three times during a rally at Varanasi, the chairman called for a cheer for Indira, and three times the crowd shouted no. In Lucknow, women in the front of the audience started to leave ten minutes after Mrs. Gandhi began to speak. Tired of news broadcasts on the government-run All India Radio, which ignored the opposition's campaign and burbled endlessly about...