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...known for decades. The biggest problem that held the system in the labs was the film's slow reaction to light. Polaroid's scientists, however, found a way to speed it up to an acceptable ASA (American Standards Association) rating of 40, adequate for moviemaking outdoors by daylight or indoors with a small floodlight. Land wants to market Polavision with sound, and the film shown at last week's meeting had an unused magnetic sound track, but Land is not satisfied with the quality...
...mainly modern drama but also some classical music and drama. I was only 15 then. The school provided free tuition and meals and an allowance of two yuan (about 60 U.S. cents) a month. I studied there only one year, but I learned a lot. I got up before daylight and tried to learn as much as possible. [The curriculum also included the special body movements used in Chinese opera, makeup, costuming, traditional Chinese musical instruments and even the piano, for three months...
...with daylight, crew after crew...
...Sandwich, a first round on that noble course before a first University match. There was no lying on the grass that time, but a rush straight from the station to the club-house, and a race round the course in a blue serge suit to beat the fading daylight. Yet the same ecstatic glory hangs round the memories of both rounds; I know that in the first of them my driver had a brown head, and in the second a yellow one, or perhaps, since the occasion was so romantic, I should say, of palest gold...
...taken in by Amin's personal goon squad, the oddly named State Research Bureau (S.R.B.), a sadistic crew of sports-shirted killers who wear dark glasses even at night and seem to have carte blanche to kill. They will flag down a car in broad daylight in downtown Kampala and drag the terrified driver out and lock him in the car trunk, then drive the car away, all in full view of passive onlookers who know better than to protest or intervene. Not a single person bundled off in this manner has ever been seen alive again...